Gimp

Quick meaning: Gimp is a noun meaning The plastic cord used in the plaiting and knotting craft scoubidou (lanyard making); or, the process itself.

Meaning

The plastic cord used in the plaiting and knotting craft scoubidou (lanyard making); or, the process itself.

More Meanings

1. (informal) A person who is lame due to a crippling of the legs or feet.
2. (informal) A crippled leg.
3. A narrow ornamental fabric or braid of silk, wool, or cotton, often stiffened with metallic wire or coarse cord running through it, used as trimming for dresses, curtains, furniture, etc. Also guimpe.
4. Any coarse or reinforced thread, such as a glazed thread employed in lacemaking to outline designs, or silk thread used as a fishing leader, protected from the bite of fish by a wrapping of fine wire.
5. (sewing, textiles) Of yarn, cord, thread, etc., to wrap or wind (surround) with another length of yarn or wire in a tight spiral, often by means of a gimping machine, creating 'gimped yarn', etc. Also, generally, to wrap or twist with string or wire. See gimped.
6. (dated, chiefly Northeastern US) Gumption.
7. (dated) To notch or indent; to jag or make jagged; to edge with serrations or grooves.

Example Sentences

They are prettier cut and gimped in the shape of wheels.

Love them and encourage them, but put some 'gimp' into them.

I'm a fisher of men and my gimp is doing a saltarello over every body of water to fetch up what it may.

You haven't got gimp enough to, any more than you could smash the rest of that pint, instead of swallowing it. You're a weakling.

Word Forms

• gimps
• gimping
• gimped

Synonyms for gimp

Depending on context, synonyms include spirit, ambition, vigor, pep, cripple, disabled.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include limping, claudication, lameness, gimpiness, gameness, trimming.

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