The act of singling out one person of the group and testing their knowledge by asking them a series of intense, difficult questions in front of everyone.
Pimping the interns and medical students was a given during rounds.
"They know nothing of Natural Philosophy, these pin-heads. Drunkards, sloths, their bellies filled with Mead and Ale. O that I might see them pimped!"
William Harvey
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