pimping

pimping
 v.— «When I started my third year, I thought that pimping was the most horrible thing on Earth.…You are asked questions in front of your peers by the person who makes out your grades in surgery. It’s the worst because you can’t go anywhere. The attending (physician) is operating and asking you stuff under the hot operating room lights.» —“The making of a Doctor” by Vivienne Heines Houston Chronicle (Texas) July 17, 1987. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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