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Wimp

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Noun

1. chicken, crybaby, wimp

a person who lacks confidence, is irresolute and wishy-washy

2. weakly interacting massive particle, wimp

a hypothetical subatomic particle of large mass that interacts weakly with ordinary matter through gravitation; postulated as a constituent of the dark matter of the universe

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Wimp

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noun
informal
a feeble ineffective person
acronym for
1. 
windows, icons, menus (or mice), pointers: denoting a type of user-friendly screen display used on small computers
a WIMP system
2. physics
weakly interacting massive particle

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Wimp

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noun
a hypothetical, electrically neutral, massive subatomic particle that interacts with other matter by means of the weak interaction
noun
a weak, ineffectual, or insipid person

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Wimp

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n.
Any of various hypothetical subatomic particles that interact with matter through gravity and the weak force and that are sometimes postulated to constitute a galaxy's missing mass.
n.
A timid or unadventurous person: "the impression that he is a colorless, indecisive wimp, and not a leader among men" (James J. Kilpatrick).
intr.v. wimped, wimp·ing, wimps
To be timid or cowardly. Usually used with out: wimped out and refused to jump off the high diving board.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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