gimp

noun10

1. •
   (slang, offensive) A name-calling word, generally for a person who is perceived to be inept, deficient or peculiar.
2. •
   (slang, offensive) A character or ability that is underpowered.
3. •
   (slang) A submissive dressed in a full-body suit of latex or a similar material.
4. •
   (informal) A person who is lame due to a crippling of the legs or feet.
5. •
   (informal) A limp or a limping gait.

   • She walks with a gimp in one leg, which is why she is called Madame La Gimp... — 1934
6. •
   A narrow ornamental fabric or braid of silk, wool, or cotton, often stiffened with metallic wire or coarse cord running through it, used as trimming for dresses, curtains, furniture, etc. Also guimpe.

   • 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. — 1908
7. •
   Any coarse or reinforced thread, such as a glazed thread employed in lacemaking to outline designs, or silk thread used as a fishing leader, protected from the bite of fish by a wrapping of fine wire.

   • I'm a fisher of men and my gimp is doing a saltarello over every body of water to fetch up what it may. — 1936
8. •
   The plastic cord used in the plaiting and knotting craft scoubidou (lanyard making); or, the process itself.
9. •
   (informal) A crippled leg.
10. •
    (US, old-fashioned) Gumption.

    • Love them and encourage them, but put some 'gimp' into them. — 1898

verb4

1. •
   (slang) To make underpowered; to limit or restrict the useful effects of.
2. •
   (informal) To limp; to hobble.
3. •
   Of yarn, cord, thread, etc., to wrap or wind (surround) with another length of yarn or wire in a tight spiral, often by means of a gimping machine, creating 'gimped yarn', etc. Also, generally, to wrap or twist with string or wire. See gimped.

   • It consists of seventy fine spun cotton threads, gimped or tied around with thread by a machine similar to that for wrapping bonnet wire. — 1856
4. •
   (old-fashioned) To notch or indent; to jag or make jagged; to edge with serrations or grooves.

   • They are prettier cut and gimped in the shape of wheels. — 1890

adjective1

1. •
   (old-fashioned) Neat; trim; delicate; slender; handsome; spruce; elegant.

noun2

1. •
   Acronym of GNU Image Manipulation Program, a computer program capable of editing and manipulating digital images.
2. •
   Abbreviation of gravitationally interacting massive particle.