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4 lettersPronunciation /ɡɪmp/Part of speech verb, nounSorted gimpStarts with GEnds with P0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. walk impeded by some physical limitation or injury

Word origin

Attested since about 1660, perhaps from Dutch gimp or French guimpe, and likely from Old French guimpre, a variant of guipure, a kind of trimming.

Used in a sentence

  • They sat about in black and shiny and flouncey clothing adorned with gimp and beads, eating great quantities of cake, drinking much tea in a stately manner and reverberating remarks.
  • I'm a fisher of men and my gimp is doing a saltarello over every body of water to fetch up what it may.
  • Love them and encourage them, but put some 'gimp' into them.

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