gimme n.
1. (Aus.) an acquisitive, greedy woman.
[ | ![]() | West Broadway 190: ‘Hey, you! [...] That'll be fifty cents"’ ‘Can you beat it,’ says Jim after he had paid her [...] ‘She’s got not only cooties, but gimmies!’]. |
![]() | Here’s Luck (1955) 61: She kissed me on the ear. She was a gimme, but twenty years of life fell from me [AND]. | |
![]() | Bed and Bored 122: ‘He doesn’t want to leave his knock-kneed, buck-toothed, brass-eyed gimme for a while!’ ‘Tough. Actually she is not such a bad looking bird.’. | |
![]() | August Snow [ebook] ‘Rose is a legacy employee with a titanium-clad employment contract. She’s a gimme’. |
2. (US) greed, ‘something for nothing’.
![]() | It Can’t Happen Here 90: ‘Gaw! Every guy in the country with a bad case of the gimmes comes to see me!’ he growled. |
3. (also gimmee, gimmie) something given away for free, or a bargain.
![]() | Pagan Game (1969) 172: Tank Tarrant was in the game for what he could get out of it, the trips overseas, the gimmes, the goodies, the free booze. | |
![]() | Hooligans (2003) 9: What you got here, you got a major racetrack, and a beauty. [...] A classy track, okay? That’s a gimmee. | |
![]() | Goodfellas [film script] 19: All of them were gimmie’s. | |
![]() | Penguin Book of All-New Aus. Jokes 166: Pick it up! It’s a gimme [of a shot in golf]. |
4. (UK Und.) a bribe.
![]() | Outlaws (ms.) 10: With all the gimmes and dropsies and once we’ve factored in Eli’s take we’ll be left with a good half million. |
5. (US black) a given.
![]() | Check the Technique 332: ‘I was smoking a lot of weed back then, that's a gimme’. |
In compounds
(US) a baseball cap carrying the logo of a sports team, manufacturer or other commercial institution.
![]() | in Texas Monthly Jan. 143: Anglers in gimme caps advertising machine shops or bait stands [HDAS]. | |
![]() | Howard the Duck 116: Three grinning truckers in green mesh gimme caps. | |
![]() | All Tomorrow’s Parties 139: Those nylon baseball caps [...] MY mother used to call those ‘gimme caps.’. | |
![]() | Robbers (2001) 170: A black gimmee cap advertising Bolivar Barge Company sat above a wide forehead. | |
![]() | Real Country 9: [...] scraping the carbon off a tiny piece from a lawnmower engine’s carburetor with a pin that he kept in his gimme cap. |
(US) a greedy, materialistic young woman.
![]() | You Gotta Be Rough 184: She was a good kid, as I told you, but she was naturally one of those gimme girls. | |
![]() | Llantarnam 23: Later on she would be called the ‘gimme girl’ [...] always living beyond her means. | |
![]() | 🌐 Chubby-cheeked Princess Penelope is a gimme girl. For her birthday she gets, among other things, a sixteen-wheeler bike, a dress with ‘ruffles on its ruffles on its ruffles,’ and a parrot. | Rev. of ‘Princess Penelope’s Parrot’ at HallKidsFiction.com
(US) a beggar, one who solicits loans.
![]() | Indep. Press-Telegram (Long Beach, CA) Southland Mag. 25 Oct. 24/5: Usually this type of ‘gimme guy’s’ take is not excessive because he knocks off ‘work’ when he’s raised enough money to drink himself into oblivion. |