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chimp

nounverbattested in dialogue

  • //t͡ʃɪmp//

A black person.

noun

  1. 1

    A black person.

  2. 2

    Variant of chimpanzeeinformalClipping of chimpanzee.

    The chimps in the zoo were making a racket.

Etymology

Clipping of chimpanzee.

verb

  1. 1

    informalTo review each image on a digital camera after it is taken.

  2. 2

    informalTo get very excited when showing images on a digital camera.

  3. 3

    Variant of chimp outslangClipping of chimp out.

Forms

plural
chimps
past tense
chimped
past participle
chimped
present participle
chimping
third person singular
chimps
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).