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dimbus en · NOUN

Etymology

From dim. Compare dimbo.

Meanings

  1. (slang) A foolish or stupid person.
    • >Have you heard that Sierra has a 77gr. .224 that'll feed through an magazine? Thats^([sic]) .223 you dimbus, now I really believe you won't shoot yourself in the foot first. BTW SS109 is better anyway. 2000, Gone-A-Viking, “Gore's G.O.T.V. for Blacks”, in talk.politics.guns (Usenet):
    • We had a clock counting down to the satellite time, which was booked and locked. We couldn't change it. We had to make the time, and this guy was a dimbus. But eventually we got it working. 2002, Michael Crichton, Prey, page 29:

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