gimme

contraction

1. 1

   Give me.

   Gimme the ball.

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   Gimme, gimme, gimme a man after midnight / Won't somebody help me chase the shadows away?

   Come on, Dad / Gimme the car tonight / I got this girl, I wanna…

noun

1. 1

   That which is easy to perform or obtain, especially in sports.

   You have to swipe along to page three of Fifa's world rankings before catching sight of the Faroe Islands, perched in 114th place, nearly 70 spots below Scotland. But under Hakan Ericson, they no longer represent the gimme fixture most in world football once reckoned them to be.

2. 2

   That which is easy to perform or obtain, especially in sports. A tap-in putt, usually a couple inches from the cup.

   Don't count two strokes for that — it was a gimme: if I wasn't holding the flag with my other hand for the next players waiting for the hole, it would have gone in.

3. 3

   That which is easy to perform or obtain, especially in sports. That which is simply given away for nothing; a freebie.

   The Trojan horse gimme typically arrives as an e-mail attachment promising something for nothing (that is, a “gimme”)—maybe a fun free screen saver,[…]

   Our first answered prayer is Salvation—the entry of Christ— but that is a “gimme,” it is a “freebie,” for God has already answered this prayer for everyone, even before he or she asks.

4. 4

   That which is certain; that which is sure to be the case.

   Imani: Well, yeah, I was smoking a lot of weed back then, that's a gimme. At the Manor it was really just smoking. Stress smoking. We didn't have no chronic at the time—there were some mushrooms here and there.

   Didn't wear any rings, and if she had worn some, they would have contained purple stones, that was a gimme. A nightmarish thought flashed through his head. Him waking on a Sunday morning, finding Cresta there in his bed beside him,[…]

   The staid and uncool Democratic Establishment, by blowing a gimme election, had discredited itself.

Forms

plural

gimmes