gimme

The definition of a gimme is something that is certain to happen since it is so easy to achieve.

(noun)

When your ball is less than a putter's length away from the hole in golf, the shot to get the ball into the hole is an example of a gimme.

Gimme, a slang expression, is defined as "give me."

(idiom)

When you want someone to hand you an ice cream cone that he is holding, this is an example of a situation where you might say "Gimme the ice cream."

See gimme in Webster's New World College Dictionary

transitive verb

give me (in informal pronunciation): gimme a break!

intransitive verb

Slang give it to me: used in the imperative

adjective

Slang acquisitive; greedy: the gimme generation

noun pl. gimmies

Golf a putt so short that one's opponent gives one credit for sinking it in a single stroke without one's actually having to shoot it
something expected to be so easily achieved as to seem certain or inevitable

See gimme in American Heritage Dictionary 4

Informal

Contraction of give me.

adjective
Slang

Demanding material things or especially money; acquisitive: today's gimme society; tired of gimme letters.

noun
Sports

A putt that is granted to a fellow player as successfully made either before it is attempted or after it is missed in an informal game of golf.

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