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chimping out

chimping out is the present participle and gerund of chimp out.

Meaning of chimp out

Verb

chimp out (third-person singular simple present chimps out, present participle chimping out, simple past and past participle chimped out)

  1. (derogatory, ethnic, intransitive, slang, slur) Of a black person, to behave aggressively or violently.
    • On one blog I was treated to a picture of a caged monkey with the below caption:
      Imagine for a minute the fantastic awesome reaction among other chimps if Obama was pulled from his palace and sent to Nigger University (Prison) for 25 years. Not only would they chimp out, but it'd be a perfect...2012, D. S. Brown, Why I Voted for President Barack Hussein Obama II, Bloomington, Indiana, United States: AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 44
    Synonyms:
    chimp
  2. (intransitive, offensive, slang, usually) To wild out; to crash out; to react with anger to another's joke.

Questions about chimping out

What is chimping out the present participle and gerund of?
Chimping out is the present participle and gerund of chimp out.

Words near chimping out in the dictionary

  1. chimpettes
  2. chimphuman
  3. chimphumans
  4. chimpiness
  5. chimping
  6. chimping out
  7. chimpish
  8. chimpkind
  9. chimplike
  10. chimpling
  11. chimplings

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chimping out (page history and authors); chimp out (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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