bimbo
/ˈbɪmbəʊ//ˈbɪmboʊ/
bimbo noun: a physically attractive person, typically a woman or otherwise feminine in appearance, who lacks intelligence.
Noun (1)
bimbo (plural bimbos or bimboes)
- A physically attractive person, typically a woman or otherwise feminine in appearance, who lacks intelligence.
- Anyway, to make a long, dull story even duller, I come from a time when a guy like me used to come into a joint like this and pick up a young chick like you and… call her a ‘bimbo’.[1972, Bernardo Bertolucci, Franco Arcalli, Last Tango in Paris, spoken by Paul (Marlon Brando)
- a. 1992, P. J. O’Rourke, a sketch
A bimbo is a woman who is not pretty enough to be a model, not smart enough to be an actress, and not nice enough to be a poisonous snake.
- A stupid or foolish person.
- And one had to remember that most of the bimbos to whom Roberta Wickham had been giving the bird through the years had been of the huntin', shootin' and fishin' type, fellows who had more or less shot their bolt after saying 'Eh, what?' and slapping their leg with a hunting crop.1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter III
- Isn't he the bimbo who took the bread out of the mouths of the Thursday Review people? Chuck the blighter out of the window and we want to see him bounce.1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter XIII
Noun (2) capitalized: BIMBO
BIMBO (plural BIMBOs)
- Initialism of buy-in management buyout.
Proper noun capitalized: Bimbo
Bimbo
- A city in the Central African Republic.
Synonyms of bimbo
Forms of bimbo
| plural | bimbos |
|---|---|
| plural | bimboes |
| plural | BIMBOs |
Origin of bimbo
From Italian bimbo (“a child, a male baby”), variant of bambino (“child”). Originated in Italian American theater, attested 1919, as “stupid, inconsequential man”, by 1920 developed sense of “floozie, attractive and stupid woman”. Popularized in 1920s by Jack Conway of entertainment magazine Variety, who also popularized baloney (“nonsense”) and palooka (“large stupid man”). Revived in popularity in 1980s US political sex scandals.
Words formed from bimbo
Phrases with bimbo
Words that rhyme with bimbo
Questions about bimbo
- What does bimbo mean?
- Bimbo means a physically attractive person, typically a woman or otherwise feminine in appearance, who lacks intelligence.
- What part of speech is bimbo?
- Bimbo can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce bimbo?
- Bimbo is pronounced /ˈbɪmbəʊ/ (UK).
- What is the plural of bimbo?
- The plural of bimbo is bimbos.
Words near bimbo in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: bimbo (page history and authors); BIMBO (page history and authors); Bimbo (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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