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wimp

   [wimp] Informal.
noun
1.
a weak, ineffectual, timid person.
Verb phrase
2.
wimp out,
a.
to be or act like a wimp.
b.
to show timidity or cowardice; chicken out.

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a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
a fool or simpleton; ninny.
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Origin:
1915–20, Americanism; origin uncertain; compare whimper
Example Sentences
  • Contrary to its reputation, the piranha may really be a wimp.
  • She felt pain, but didn't want to be a wimp by complaining too loudly.
  • The president now finds himself accused of being both a warmonger for entering the war and a wimp for his lame prosecution of it.
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WIMP

   [wimp]
noun
any of a group of weakly interacting elementary particles predicted by various unified field theories, as the W particle and Z-zero particle, that are characterized by relatively large masses.
Origin:
1985–90; W(eakly) I(nteracting) M(assive) P(article)
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World English Dictionary
wimp (wɪmp)
 
—n
informal See also wimp out a feeble ineffective person
 
[C20: of unknown origin]
 
'wimpish
 
—adj
 
'wimpy
 
—adj

WIMP (wɪmp)
 
—acronym for
1.  windows, icons, menus (or mice), pointers: denoting a type of user-friendly screen display used on small computers: a WIMP system
2.  physics weakly interacting massive particle

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wimp
1920 (but not attested again until 1960), perhaps a clipped form of whimper (cf whimp, 1549), perhaps influenced by J. Wellington Wimpy, comparatively unaggressive character in "Popeye" comics. Wimpy (adj.) is from 1967.
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WIMP   (wĭmp)  Pronunciation Key 
Short for weakly interacting massive particle. Any of various hypothetical particles, some predicted by certain theories such as supersymmetry, which interact with other particles by the force of gravity alone. WIMPs are considered by some scientists to be candidates for the dark matter that makes up much of the mass of the universe.
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wimp definition


  1. mod.
    windows, icons, mouse pointer. (Usually WIMP. Acronym. Refers to a computer system, such as Macintosh or Microsoft Windows, with an elaborate user interface including resizable windows, clever icons, and a movable mouse. The term implies that such systems are for computer weaklings.) : I am happier with a computer system that doesn't have all that WIMP stuff.
  2. n.
    a weak and retiring person; a square. : What a wimp. People walk all over her.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Computing Dictionary

WIMP definition

operating system
Windows, Icons, Menus and Pointers (or maybe Windows, Icons, Mouse, Pull-down menus).
The style of graphical user interface invented at Xerox PARC, popularised by the Apple Macintosh and now available in other varieties such as the X Window System, OSF/Motif, NeWS, RISC OS and Microsoft Windows.
See menuitis, user-obsequious, window system.
(2007-09-12)

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Abbreviations & Acronyms
WIMP

  1. window, icon, menu, pointing [device]

  2. window, icon, mouse, pull-down [menu]

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