gimmies

Variant of gimme

gimme definition

gimme (gim′ē)

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 -·mies

  1. 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
  2. something expected to be so easily achieved as to seem certain or inevitable

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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