to wimp
14
7.8
To avoid a difficult thing because you feel afraid
- verb
- /wɪmp/
- Offensive
:
rajarse
- Don't wimp out when faced with a tough decision; face the challenge head-on.
- just wimped
- wimped out," she says
Like all the peoples who had the hot take of your, your, you know, you're, you're wimping out, are all couch potatoes.
- Like all the peoples who had the hot take of your, your, you know, you're, you're wimping out, are all couch potatoes.
Examples
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You're not gonna wimp out on me now, are ya?
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What if it could have happened, and we, as a nation, wimped out?
Blog text (15) -
So now it's like, maybe I'll just wimp out on the whole thing. # JIM #
Fiction book (1999) -
It's not like him to wimp out on baseball.
Fiction book (1998) -
Don't wimp out like that.
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But as president, he wimped out on too many things.
Blog text (32) -
I knew you'd wimp out!
Fiction book (1997) -
Don't you dare wimp out on this.
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Don't wimp out.
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You're not wimping out on us, Goodspeed.
Fiction book (1996)
Synonyms
8
9.9
To be too afraid to do something
acts weakly and avoids difficult challenges
Antonyms
How Cowardly
to chicken out
42
6.2
- Informal
42
6.2
to wimp
14
7.8
- Offensive
14
7.8
to back down
107
3.7
107
3.7
to avoid
∞
1.0
∞
1.0
to hesitate
318
2.5
318
2.5
Surface Forms
Etymology
Wimp, used in phrases like wimp out, comes from the noun wimp. It means 'to act like a weak person' or to avoid something difficult or scary.