wimp

wimp

slang Someone who is too nervous, afraid, or reserved to do anything too intense, extreme, or risky. We're all doing the bungie jump. Don't be a wimp, Bob! If you don't have what it takes to organize a project of this size, then good riddance—we don't need a wimp on our team.

wimp out (of something)

slang To withdraw from doing something out of fear, insecurity, or laziness. They were just about to strap me in for the bungie jump, but I wimped out at the last second. Jeff had promised to help, but he wimped out of the project when he realized how much work it would entail. Sorry, guys, Janet's wimping out of the road trip. She says she isn't comfortable being away from home for that long.
See also: out, wimp
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

wimp out (of something)

Sl. to chicken out (of something); to get out of something difficult, inconvenient, or dangerous, leaving others to carry the burden. Come on! Don't wimp out now that there's all this work to be done. Ted wimped out on us.
See also: out, wimp
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.

wimp out

v. Slang
To withdraw from a commitment or course of action because of cowardice or insecurity: I don't want to stand in line for the roller coaster if you're going to wimp out at the last minute.
See also: out, wimp
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs.

wimp

1. mod. windows, icons, mouse pointer. (Usually WIMP. Acronym. Refers to a computer system, such as Macintosh or Microsoft Windows, with an elaborate user interface including resizable windows, clever icons, and a movable mouse. The term implies that such systems are for computer weaklings.) I am happier with a computer system that doesn’t have all that WIMP stuff.
2. n. a weak and retiring person; a square. What a wimp. People walk all over her.

wimp out (of something)

in. to chicken out (of something); to get out of something, leaving others to carry the burden. Come on! Don’t wimp out now that there’s all this work to be done.
See also: of, out, something, wimp

wimp out

verb
See wimp out of something
See also: out, wimp
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • wuss
  • wussy
  • wuss out
  • wuss out (of something)
  • wimp out
  • wimp out (of something)
  • wimp out of something
  • go as far as (doing something)
  • go so far as (doing something)
  • go as far as to (do something)
References in periodicals archive
In other words the minimum velocity consistent with the energy transfer T and the WIMP mass is constrained as above.
Light WIMP Searches Involving Electron Scattering
There are actually several options out there beyond the WIMP lamppost.
In the dark about dark matter
Our editorial goal is to get every WiMP user to listen to one album in its entirety within the campaign period.
MUSIC STREAMING SERVICE OFFERS LOSSLESS CD QUALITY
We therefore see this as a good reason to drop the record collection at home, not least because users can carry the WiMP with them.
ASPIRO AND TELENOR BRING WIMP TO DENMARK
To do this, they have filled a large tank with the inert gas xenon and fitted it with detectors that can spot the flashes of light that should be produced when wimps occasionally strike xenon atoms.
Scientists search for Wimps; British lab may beat CERN to dark matter
Lewis called "men without chests," that is, wimps. The chest of the wimp has atrophied from want of early training.
Wimps and Barbarians: the sons of Murphy Brown
THIS NEXUS OF POWER INTERESTS WORRIED A LIBERAL WIMP like Dwight Eisenhower so much he got off his deathbed to warn his fellow Americans about it in 1961.
There's no defense for this budget: America's empire has been detailed for years in annual military spending requests. (margin notes)
Phyllis Widding purchased the house from Winfrey "Wimp" Sanderson and his wife, Annette.
Sanderson Manor
As I handed Andrew the trophy, I could read the expression on his face -- wimp no more.
Wimp No More
But many others were saved by the mysterious Pimpernel, a man of iron who pretends to be a wimp of marshmallow.
FAMILY CHOICE; THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL BBC1, 8pm
Raster graphics-based networked workstations and "point-and-click" WIMP GUIs (graphical user interfaces based on windows, icons, menus, and a pointing device, typically a mouse) are the legacy of Xerox PARC that we're still using today.
Post-WIMP user interfaces
Eventually, the rebel investors gave in, and Jay Z was able to take Aspiro private and gain control of its music streaming service, WiMP. Now it was time for the rapper to relaunch WiMP and to showcase his plans for the company.
diJay Zs Tidal comes under scrutiny after its global rise
In recent years, there have been considerable theoretical and experimental efforts towards WIMP detection through several nuclear probes [11-13].
Novel Neutrino-Floor and Dark Matter Searches with Deformed Shell Model Calculations
Axions are small fry as dark matter goes--they can be as tiny as a millionth of a billionth the proposed mass of a WIMP. The particles interact so feebly that they are extremely difficult to detect.
Dark matter searches come up empty: physicists broaden efforts to identify bulk of universe's mass
But WIMP theory posits that dark particles should also interact via the weak force, which governs nature on a subatomic level, including fusion within the Sun.
No WIMPs from LUX