Entry · catalog no. 0357
simp
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noun · West Coast, nationwide · 2026
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1.
A man who is excessively, self-abasingly devoted to a woman — doing too much, giving too much, expecting little back. From simpleton.
“He bought her a car after two dates, straight simp.”
Origin & Attribution
West Coast rap of the 1980s and 1990s, where artists like Too Short and E-40 used it as the opposite of a pimp — Too Short's "Simpin Ain't Easy" dates to 1987, and Three 6 Mafia used it in 1999. It sat in Black vernacular for three decades before a 2019 TikTok trend rebranded it as new internet slang.
Region of origin
West
Midwest
N.East
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The West
West Coast, nationwide · 2026
Spoken by
West Coast, nationwide
$SIMPThe Record · cultural traction
▲ Rising0 yrs
ahead of the mainstream
12/100
peak cultural energy
Introduced to English by the culture — logged here before the mainstream caught on.
Cultural usage — the recordMainstream search interest
First used
2026
in the culture
Recorded here
2026
point of first record
Cultural energy indexed from documented usage, search interest, and citation frequency. The recorded date is the archive’s permanent point of record.
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Citations & Sources
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Too Short, "Simpin Ain't Easy" — song · 1987
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+ Cite a sourceWikipedia, "Simp" etymology — reference · entry
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