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pimp
 v.— «One hears the stories: about being “pimped” by a following one’s presentation of a case (being questioned unmercifully until one’s is exhausted about a particular syndrome, thus forcing an “I don’t know” response, followed by a “Well, why don’t you know?”).» —by S. Broadhead Private Lives and Professional Identity of  Dec. 1, 1983. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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