(n.) A narrow ornamental fabric of silk, woolen, or cotton, often with a metallic wire, or sometimes a coarse cord, running through it; -- used as trimming for dresses, furniture, etc.
(v. t.) To notch; to indent; to jag.
Example Sentences:
(1) British Cycling, Will’s Wheels and the curious case of 2,200 pieces of GB kit Read more Drake said: “I have never been made aware, formally or informally, of any allegation that Shane Sutton had used the offensive term ‘gimps’ in reference to Paralympic athletes prior to the media reports of the past few days.
(2) I do like people.” What they say “At the risk of ruining the honourable gentleman’s reputation as Thatcher’s gimp – I mean toy boy – may I enormously commend him for the work he has done as [select] committee chair for the past 10 years” – Chris Bryant MP
(3) PT: Photoshop is standard; though it certainly won’t hurt if you get good with GIMP, which is completely free.
(4) But BrewDog got to denounce Diageo as “a band of dishonest hammerheads and dumb-ass corporate freaks”, and to affirm that the incident showed “just how scared and jealous the gimp-like establishment are of the craft beer revolutionaries”.
(5) As well as woozily offering Mark Ronson a sip of his gin, we also got to witness him confessing his love for gimp masks; playing “ hide the banana ”; and an excruciating “bit” with blind tenor Andrea Bocelli in which he stammered “Nice to, erm, see you”.
(6) A kind of unshaven, post-watershed, post-divorce and redundancy Johnny Bravo whose style inspiration sits somewhere between matador and gimp.
(7) The localization and chemical characteristics of two Golgi integral membrane proteins (GIMPs) have been studied using monoclonal antibodies.
(8) Both GIMPs are glycoproteins that contain N- and O-linked carbohydrates.
(9) In an email to the Guardian Mellor said: “‘Get those Fucking Gimps’ was a phrase that was used by Shane [Sutton] and I confirm was ignored by Ian Drake when raised by me.” Mellor also stated that in his view the Paralympic athletes were discriminated against when it came to resources, for example travelling at times without a doctor or, on one occasion, being asked to scrap a training camp when the able‑bodied team’s budget fell short.
(10) Documents from Mellor’s evidence shown to the Guardian cited an episode in which Sutton was described as coming to the coach’s office and shouting “get those fucking gimps off the track”.
(11) It’s tempting to compare them to Late Night Gimp Fight, their predecessors as the fringe’s go-to troupe for “blood, poo and bumholes” (their words) comedy.
(12) But he was left with little option but to resign after he was also accused of calling members of Britain’s hugely successful Paralympic cycling squad “wobblies” and “gimps”.
(13) The young sketch troupe Late Night Gimp Fight were entirely unapologetic about their scene at Edinburgh last month, in which Sleeping Beauty wasn't kissed awake by her prince, but raped instead.
Pimp
Definition:
(n.) One who provides gratification for the lust of others; a procurer; a pander.
(v. i.) To procure women for the gratification of others' lusts; to pander.
Example Sentences:
(1) Yves was the vulnerable, suffering artist and Pierre the fiercely controlling protector: a man who, in Lespert's film, is painfully aware of his public image – "the pimp who's found his all-star hooker".
(2) Quite a lot of the downtown action in The Catcher in the Rye (a night out in a fancy hotel; a date with an old girlfriend; an encounter with a prostitute, and a mugging by her pimp) might almost as well describe a young soldier’s nightmare experience of R&R.
(3) Pimps and clients are rarely punished and when prosecutors do manage to build a case against them, survivors often change their testimonies and the cases are thrown out, says Francisco Carlos Pereira de Andrade, a criminal prosecutor who specialises in child exploitation.
(4) Del Seymour knows all about the pimps, drug dealers and vagrants of San Francisco’s Tenderloin district – because he used to be one of them.
(5) A former showgirl from the gravel pits of Wraysbury in Berkshire, Keeler was just 19 and was staying on the estate with her friend, patron and (some said) pimp, the society osteopath Stephen Ward.
(6) Somewhere in here is a story that Refn can hardly be bothered to tell: the psychotic brother of Bangkok-dwelling American Julian (Ryan Gosling) murders a girl, is murdered for it in his turn by the girl's father, who is acting reluctantly under the aegis of a karaoke-loving samurai-cop (Vithaya Pansringarm), an angel of vengeance figure who then subtracts arm number one from the father as punishment for pimping out his late daughter.
(7) The commission looked at abuse and coercion in the industry and found that, contrary to the opinion of Schaffauser and others, criminalising buyers does not lead women to pimps.
(8) Instead of "that prostitute was out all night selling her body", think: "My neighbor (insert name here) was forced by her pimp to stand out in the cold all night and have sex with multiple men she didn't know."
(9) All of life came in – vagrants, prostitutes, pimps, addicts, young people having a laugh, people who'd had too much to drink, police officers finishing shifts, nurses starting shifts, plus the person like my dad who was about to treat his family to a bucket.
(10) The cops arrested him one evening shortly after De Blasio’s speech, on old trespass and marijuana charges, and quizzed him about his relationship with the performers (“Was he their pimp?
(11) While the shop assistants are aware they're playing the role of knicker pimp, of jolly hostess, I wonder if the male customers are aware of their own role, a role learned from the 1970s: flustered man in lingerie department.
(12) Karen wanted to pimp everybody out,” she told the court.
(13) You may think looking at a 17-year-old's Ferrari (" This is how the pimps roll ") might be an exercise in impoverished masochism, but the lack of self-awareness makes the whole experience strangely gratifying.
(14) Pimps, who in some red-light districts will take up to 70% of what a sex worker is paid, were beginning to force women to work for credit, she added.
(15) After Obama's re-election, Nugent said on Twitter: "Pimps whores & welfare brats & their soulless supporters have a president to destroy America."
(16) Kanelli characterised Golden Dawn as an "ideological and political pimp" serving "a mission that the system assigned to it".
(17) In the process he presents unimaginable people – as in Fata Morgana 's (1970) desert characters: the piano-playing madam and drum-playing begoggled pimp playing cabaret music in the Lanzarote brothel; the shellshocked Foreign Legion deserter clinging to a ragged letter from his mother; the lizard-loving German.
(18) A comic called Gerry K tells a joke about watching a pimp fighting with two prostitutes.
(19) You can pimp your kit to match your mobile phone or match your e-liquid to your mood: Golden Virginia flavour for a country pub, mojito for a bender.
(20) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Kendrick Lamar’s Grammy-winning album To Pimp a Butterfly broke down barriers around depression, say experts.