gimpy

gimpy

1. Describing one who walks with a limp or has some injury that inhibits their walking. Potentially offensive, especially when referring to someone with a disability. You're looking a little gimpy today—did you hurt your knee again?
2. Describing a body part, typically a leg, that is injured or otherwise affected in such a way as to cause one to limp or inhibit one's walking. Hey, slow down—I can't walk that fast with my gimpy leg!
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

gimpy

(ˈgɪmpi)
1. mod. crippled; lame. I got a gimpy leg. I’ll catch up in a minute.
2. n. a police officer. (Also a rude term of address. A pun on lame, an inept person.) Here comes gimpy, swinging his stick.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • gimp
  • limp-wristed
  • dead weight
  • a dead weight
  • life and limb
  • walk on a thin line between (something) and (something else)
  • nonbinary
  • a spring in (one's) step
  • walk a fine line between something
References in periodicals archive
Each of the three cases we have discussed here--My Gimpy Life, Easy Chirp 2 and Google Glass accessibility--represents an innovative approach to disability and media that is premised upon and supported by participatory culture.
"He will have the Gimpy and if he sees anything suspicious he will report it down the line."
And yet she got the message, the agony, the ecstasy, as well as a serious case of prickly shivers running everywhere unrestrained, most hotly all the way down the back of her smoothly muscled good leg and the gimpy one, too.
"The car is only about 90 percent there on the outside and about 40 percent there on the inside." Still, the gimpy, far-from-real fiberglass prototype is pivotal for the company.
A year into the odd couple's union, fate comes knocking at the door (to the opening bars of Beethoven's Fifth) in the form of Melody's Bible-spouting mother Marietta (Patricia Clarkson, in typically high-drama mode), who greets the sight of her daughter's irascible, elderly, gimpy hubby by falling out of frame in a dead faint.
At various junctures, most particularly when a gimpy, bespectacled wrestler assaults Rourke's character with a staple gun, the film verges on farce.
"The fact that no one asked a single question about his gimpy foot revealed that this crew had much more experience in trailing Britney Spears than Peyton Manning."
It then uses Gimpy or some other program to distort the fonts and other visual features, with the goal of preventing computerized image recognition.
Carnegie Mellon students developed Gimpy, the most familiar form of this reverse Turing Test, which "selects a word from an 850-word dictionary and converts it to a mangled image of itself, warping letters and adding distracting ink spots, colors and backgrounds." Researchers Battle E-mail Stealing Web Bots with Identity Checks, USA TODAY, Dec.
America has long been proud of its own Eighth Air Force, but little has been heard from the Brits who flew the creaking Wellingtons, the gimpy Halifaxes and finally the superb Lancasters through the night skies of Europe.
Gray in the muzzle and gimpy in the hips, I slowly walk to the rag rug next to the hearth where I turn in two tight circles, ease myself down, haunches first, and then stretch my front legs out, putting my chin on them.
But Lerman--born poor in Spanish Harlem; raised ambitious in Jackson Heights, Queens; done with classrooms after high school, a graduate instead of fashion magazines, emigre salon culture, and a 1930s New York underground of drag clubs and homosexual speakeasies; Jewish, gimpy, autodidactic, and "queer" (his word); a quick study and a glad hand, with his Turkish cap, purple sheets, and "royalist fantasies"--this Leo embodied upward mobility, class transgression, and theatrical reincarnation.
A needle in the spine, the gimpy stretcher-bearer we called John the Barber searching for the ankle bone as he cut our plaster casts away, measuring his prowess by the screams his pliers evinced.
The Propaganda Minister's gimpy moments walking or dancing are sometimes amusing, and yet his club foot also serves to increase the sense of menace surrounding him.
Adapted from a 1965 novel by James Leo Herlihy, Midnight Cowboy is a story about the relationship between a dim-witted hustler named Joe Buck (Voight) and Ratso, a gimpy con man played by Dustin Hoffman, set in a rampantly depraved New York City.