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kimbo

kimbo is the archaic form of akimbo.

Meaning of akimbo

Adjective

akimbo (not comparable)

  1. With a crook or bend; with the hand on the hip and elbow turned outward.
    • "Now, then, mister," said he, with his head cocked and his arms akimbo, "what are you driving at? Let's have it straight, now."1892 [January], A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. VII.—The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle.”, in Geo[rge] Newnes, editor, The Strand Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly, volume III...
  2. With legs spread and the knees bent in an outward or awkward way, sometimes with the feet touching.

See all 5 meanings of akimbo

Verb

kimbo (third-person singular simple present kimbos, present participle kimboing, simple past and past participle kimboed)

  1. (archaic, transitive) To position (the arms) akimbo.

Forms of kimbo

third-person singular presentkimbos
present participlekimboing
past participlekimboed
pastkimboed

Questions about kimbo

What does kimbo mean?
Kimbo means to position (the arms) akimbo.
What is kimbo the archaic form of?
Kimbo is the archaic form of akimbo.
What part of speech is kimbo?
Kimbo is a verb.
What is the past tense of kimbo?
The past tense of kimbo is kimboed.

Words near kimbo in the dictionary

  1. Kimbles
  2. Kimblesworth
  3. Kimblesworth and Plawsworth
  4. kimblewick
  5. kimblewicks
  6. kimbo
  7. kimboed
  8. kimboing
  9. Kimbolton
  10. kimbos
  11. Kimbrel

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Adapted from Wiktionary: kimbo (page history and authors); akimbo (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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