jimpy

adj

1. Neat, jimp.

   “[…]though more than a hundred folk sitting in his company had beheld him dauting her with his arm round her jimpy waist, not five minutes before.”

2. (not-comparable)Of, pertaining to, carrying or affected by the mutation.

noun

1. (uncountable)A sex-linked mutation in mice that causes severe hypomyelination in males.

   “When cerebellar tissues from normal and Jimpy are grown on the same slide in a common medium, no mutual effects can be observed: the Jimpy does not myelinate, and the normal does not stop myelination.”

2. (slang)A general-purpose machine gun (GPMG).

   “1985 [Hodder and Stoughton], Terence Strong, Conflict of Lions, 2014, Silver Fox Press, unnumbered page, Before they had come to a standstill, the protective cover had come off the powerful twin GPMG ‘jimpies’ mounted in the rear compartment by the laconic Australian, Corporal Kangers Webster.”

   “Immediately to his right was our very latest addition to the hill, Frank, on one of the Jimpies. To his right, leaning against the wall with his sniper rifle, was Caz.”