Bimbo

/ˈbɪmbəʊ/ · noun

Meaning

(derogatory, slang) A physically attractive person, typically a woman or otherwise feminine in appearance, who lacks intelligence..

Definitions by Sense

1. (derogatory, slang) A physically attractive person, typically a woman or otherwise feminine in appearance, who lacks intelligence.
2. (derogatory, slang, dated) A stupid or foolish person.

Example Sentences

a. 1992, P. J. O’Rourke, a sketch A bimbo is a woman who is not pretty enough to be a model, not smart enough to be an actress, and not nice enough to be a poisonous snake.

Anyway, to make a long, dull story even duller, I come from a time when a guy like me used to come into a joint like this and pick up a young chick like you and… call her a ‘bimbo’.

[Tina] Fey […] makes hay with the thought processes of a purebred bimbo: […]

Who is this bimbo, Barney? Is he a regular customer or what?

And one had to remember that most of the bimbos to whom Roberta Wickham had been giving the bird through the years had been of the huntin', shootin' and fishin' type, fellows who had more or less shot their bolt after saying 'Eh, what?' and slapping their leg with a hunting crop.

Isn't he the bimbo who took the bread out of the mouths of the Thursday Review people? Chuck the blighter out of the window and we want to see him bounce.

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• bimbos
• bimboes

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