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jimpy

adj · noun · 4 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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1

adj

Meaning 1

Neat, jimp.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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adj

Meaning 2

Of, pertaining to, carrying or affected by the mutation.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: not-comparable

Topics: biology, natural-sciences

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3

noun

Meaning 3

A sex-linked mutation in mice that causes severe hypomyelination in males.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: uncountable

Topics: biology, natural-sciences

Examples

  • 1999, Klaus-Armin Nave, Chapter 2: X-Linked Dysmyelination: Mouse Models of Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease, Brian Popko (editor), Mouse Models in the Study of Genetic Neurological Disorders, Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers, page 29, The jimpy phenotype is marked by a CNS-specific dysmyelination and has provided an authentic animal model for PMD (Sidman et al., 1964). Typically, 50% of the male progeny of jimpy carrier females are affected, whereas the heterozygous carrier female itself is unaffected.

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noun

Meaning 4

A general-purpose machine gun (GPMG).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: slang

Topics: government, military, politics, war

Examples

  • 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.

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History

Etymology

From jimp + -y.