rim

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Scrabble points
5
Words With Friends
6
Letters
3
Pronunciation
/ˈɹʷɪm/
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/ˈɹʷɪm/ · [ˈɹʷɪm]

Definition of rim

12 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. An edge around something, especially when circular.
    “That's... our galaxy. We're beyond the rim.”
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noun

  1. An edge around something, especially when circular.
    “That's... our galaxy. We're beyond the rim.”
  2. A wheelrim.
    “About an hour later, she noticed an all black Phantom with tints and chrome rims riding slowly through the car lot.”
  3. A semicircular copydesk.
    “COPY READER — Journeyman, experienced makeup, now slot man on metropolitan midwest daily. Will travel for good rim job on large paper.”
    “A copy chief with poor people skills makes life miserable for copy editors on the rim; […]”
    “On the rim are copy editors who edit stories for accuracy, brevity and clarity.”
  4. The narrow surface of wine that meets the glass when it is tilted, used in identifying the age, body, etc.
  5. (UK, dialectal)A membrane.
  6. (UK, dialectal, obsolete)The membrane enclosing the intestines; the peritoneum, hence loosely, the intestines; the lower part of the abdomen; belly.
    “Moy shall not serve; I will have forty moys; / Or I will fetch thy rim out at thy throat / In drops of crimson blood.”
  7. (British, dialectal)A step of a ladder; a rung.

verb

  1. (transitive)To form a rim on.
  2. (transitive)To follow the contours, possibly creating a circuit.
    “Palm trees rim the beach.”
    “A walking path rims the island.”
  3. (intransitive, transitive)To roll around a rim.
    “Near-synonym: lip out”
    “The golf ball rimmed the cup.”
    “The basketball rimmed in ... and out.”
  4. To coat the rim of a glass with salt or another powder.
  5. (slang, vulgar)To lick the anus of a partner as a sexual act; to perform anilingus.
    “I had learned to lick their sweaty balls and would know what they wanted if they pulled their pants down and pushed my face in their ass for a rimming out.”
    “When she started thrusting her hips back against his finger, he turned her over and rimmed her asshole as he fingered her clit.”

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Etymology

Etymology tree Old English rima Middle English rim English rim From Middle English rim, rym, rime, from Old English rima (“rim, edge, border, bank, coast”), from Proto-Germanic *rimô, *rembô (“edge,…

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Etymology tree Old English rima Middle English rim English rim From Middle English rim, rym, rime, from Old English rima (“rim, edge, border, bank, coast”), from Proto-Germanic *rimô, *rembô (“edge, border”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *rem-, *remə- (“to rest, support, be based”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Rim (“plank, wooden cross, trellis”), Old Saxon rimi (“edge; border; trim”), Icelandic rimi (“a strip of land”).

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