dimbus

English

Etymology

From dim. Compare dimbo.

Noun

dimbus (plural dimbuses)

  1. (slang) A foolish or stupid person.
    • 2000, "Gone-A-Viking", Gore's G.O.T.V. for Blacks (on newsgroup talk.politics.guns)
      >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.
    • 2002, Michael Crichton, Prey (page 29)
      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.
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.