gimp

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gimp

1. noun, slang One who walks with a limp. Potentially offensive, especially when referring to someone with a disability. I fractured my foot, so I'll be the gimp wearing a boot for the next month.
2. verb To walk with a limp. Why are you gimping about? Did you hurt your knee again?
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

gimp

(gɪmp)
1. n. a lame person. (Originally underworld. Rude and derogatory.) Lefty tried to mug an old gimp with a cane.
2. in. to limp about. I’ll gimp over there as soon as I can. It’ll take a while on these crutches.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • junk
  • Junk it!
  • juice
  • juiced
  • belt
  • belted
  • belting
  • jack
  • jacked
  • jacking
References in periodicals archive
In the first study, nine testing images are mentioned above and their corresponding rendered results by GIMP and the proposed method are used to perform subjective evaluation.
They filmed the 27-year-old artist for more than 13 years, and last year, the HBO film King Gimp, written by Keplinger, won an Oscar for Best Documentary Short Subject.
Initially, the gimp/basement torture scene seems to be heading in a painfully obvious direction, but, when the gimp is unmasked as Nell, the situation sets up a surprisingly funny turn of events.
The Isabelle collection is a hand-pieced, heat-transfer jacquard and is embellished with French gimp and cording, for an elegant, highly decorated look.
A woman allegedly charged at by a man in a rubbery gimp suit has told how the bizarre incident in a quiet village has left her terrified.
A CREEPY man in a gimp suit is being hunted by police for terrorising men and women in a village.
But the unflattering "gimp" masks are all the rage among beachgoers in China, where they are used to protect the skin from sunburn and insect bites.
A new version of GIMP is available for those who need a free alternative to expensive image editing software.
The ECHO has previously reported how Mr Poulson had accused Cllr Radford of giving funding to the Scouts for sexual reasons, keeping a "gimp" in his cellar and "ripping off " St John's church in Tuebrook over the hire of a church hall.
This is the BBC's absolutely-not-copying-it idea, with the QI gimp hosting.
Simonds, the co-director of a London design and animation company, offers instruction on how to create models and environments in 3D using open-source Blender software for 3D design and animation and open-source GIMP for 2D image editing.
The Public Library of Mount Vernon and Knox County in Ohio recently had a staff member who dabbles in graphic design do a GIMP workshop.
It teaches how to create 3D models and uses three example projects to train users through the intricacies, possibilities and pitfalls of the program, teaching how to work with art in Blender and GIMP, how to use its tools to create better models, and how to achieve texture and 3D artwork qualities.
The offer came with photos, including one of a dwarf wearing a gimp mask and carrying a whip, with an advertising blurb declaring that stag and hen nights should be "monumental, legendary and scandalous in equal parts.