Is "Pimp" a word?

On Tuesday, I was being observed by the district literacy coach just so that she could see how far my kids have come and what we are doing at the end of the year. It's very informal and she's been in my classroom almost twice a month all year so even the kids don't question her presence. She was the only one I was expecting but after she sits down, in walks the principal from the other K-2 building. I know who he is despite never having been introduced to him, and he wasn't there to watch me perse but see the lesson. He used to be a kindergarten teacher and sometimes follows the literacy coach around to see our reading program in action without having formally observing his own teachers. This explanation might not make sense but it does in practice. Surprisingly, I wasn't more nervous but that's probably just because I didn't have time to be. He walked in as we were starting so I didn't have a chance to think about it. All by design I'm sure.

All of that to say this: We were doing "Making Words" lesson where the kids were using 5 square cut out letters to make a variety of 2, 3, 4, and 5 letters words. Letters being p, t, n, i, r. Started with it, in, tin, pin, etc. We got up to 4 and 5 letter words when someone shouts out "PIMP!?!?" Is "pimp" a word Ms. Lock? Someone else replies, "Yes! It's a guy." And suddenly half the class is arguing over whether or not "pimp" is a word and what it means. I'm just standing there in the middle of the room saying nothing. I look over at my two observers who are DYING laughing. The principal has to turn around and stare at the color words on my wall to keep from losing it and the lit coach has her head hiding behind her arm. There is suddenly silence as everyone waits for me to give the definitive answer to which I reply, "No. It's not." When someone shouts out in response, "But pimple is!" And I didn't hear it because I was retreating back to the front and moving on as quickly as possible but the lit. coach told me later that someone started talking about how he used to have a pimple on his butt and it was huge and on and on about it. Oh the joys of vocabulary building. Overall, it was good lesson and I guess both said they were impressed by the kids ability to even be able to do the lesson, but all I could do was laugh. You just never know what might happen next. And who can't laugh at that?