pimpmobile

pimpmobile
/pimp"moh beel', -meuh-/, n. Slang.
a large, expensive, and ostentatious or vulgarly ornate automobile, typically one painted in bright colors and fitted out with a lavish or overelaborate interior.
[1970-75, Amer.; PIMP + -MOBILE]

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