Jimpy
adj, noun, slang ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
- 1 A sex-linked mutation in mice that causes severe hypomyelination in males. uncountable
"When cerebellar tissues from normal and Jimpy are grown on the same slide in a common medium, no mutual effects can be observed: the Jimpy does not myelinate, and the normal does not stop myelination."
- 2 A general-purpose machine gun (GPMG). slang
"1985 [Hodder and Stoughton], Terence Strong, Conflict of Lions, 2014, Silver Fox Press, unnumbered page, Before they had come to a standstill, the protective cover had come off the powerful twin GPMG ‘jimpies’ mounted in the rear compartment by the laconic Australian, Corporal Kangers Webster."
- 1 Neat, jimp.
"[…]though more than a hundred folk sitting in his company had beheld him dauting her with his arm round her jimpy waist, not five minutes before."
- 2 Of, pertaining to, carrying or affected by the mutation. not-comparable
Example
More examples"[…]though more than a hundred folk sitting in his company had beheld him dauting her with his arm round her jimpy waist, not five minutes before."
Etymology
From jimp + -y.
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