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quimps

quimps is the plural of quimp.

Meaning of quimp

Noun

quimp (plural quimps)

  1. A graphic element, used within maledicta balloons in comics to represent obscenities, curses and swearing, resembling the planet Saturn.
    • He does all the Popeye voices, but prefers Olive Oyl's. He has noises for the nittles, the grawlix, the quimps, the jarns. He blows each balloon up before your ears. He reels home, +'s on his eyes, singing the spurl that rises like heat from his head.1995 February 21, William H[oward] Gass, “Culp”, in The Tunnel, Normal, Ill.: Dalkey Archive Press, published 2014, →ISBN, page 159

Questions about quimps

What is quimps the plural of?
Quimps is the plural of quimp.

Words near quimps in the dictionary

  1. quimiotherapy
  2. quimp
  3. Quimper
  4. Quimper ware
  5. Quimperware
  6. quimps
  7. quims
  8. quin
  9. quin-
  10. quin-zhee
  11. quin-zhees

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