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Gimme means (colloquial) Give me..
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/ˈɡɪmiː/ · contraction
(colloquial) Give me..
Gimme the ball.
He, that would write exactly, muſt avoid a Barbarous Pronunciation, and conſider for facility, or thorow miſtake, many words are not ſounded after the beſt dialect. Such as […] gem me, gim me, give me.
Gimme, gimme, gimme a man after midnight / Won't somebody help me chase the shadows away?
Come on, Dad / Gimme the car tonight / I got this girl, I wanna…
You have to swipe along to page three of Fifa's world rankings before catching sight of the Faroe Islands, perched in 114th place, nearly 70 spots below Scotland. But under Hakan Ericson, they no longer represent the gimme fixture most in world football once reckoned them to be.
Imani: Well, yeah, I was smoking a lot of weed back then, that's a gimme. At the Manor it was really just smoking. Stress smoking. We didn't have no chronic at the time—there were some mushrooms here and there.
Didn't wear any rings, and if she had worn some, they would have contained purple stones, that was a gimme. A nightmarish thought flashed through his head. Him waking on a Sunday morning, finding Cresta there in his bed beside him,[…]
The staid and uncool Democratic Establishment, by blowing a gimme election, had discredited itself.
Use gimme when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Gimme means (colloquial) Give me..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Gimme the ball.
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