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gimme
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
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