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单词 slim jim
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slim jimn.

/slɪm dʒɪm/
Forms: Also slim Jim, Slim Jim.
Etymology: Rhyming combination of slim adj. and the proper name Jim.
1. A very slim or thin person.
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the world > life > the body > bodily shape or physique > slim shape or physique > [noun] > thin shape > person having
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notomy1487
rakea1529
crag1542
scrag1542
sneakbill1546
starveling1546
slim1548
ghost1590
bald-rib1598
bare-bone1598
bow-case1599
atomy1600
sneaksbill1602
thin-gut1602
anatomya1616
sharg1623
skeleton1630
raw-bone1635
living skeleton1650
strammel1706
scarecrow1711
rickle of bones1729
shargar1754
squeeze-crab1785
rack of bones1804
thread-paper1824
bag of bones1838
dry-bones1845
skinnymalink1870
hairpin1879
slim jim1889
skinny1907
underweight1910
asthenic1925
ectomorph1940
skinny-malinky1957
matchstick1959
1889 ‘M. Twain’ Connecticut Yankee xxxix. 500 Go it, slim Jim!
2. transferred. (See quot. 1925.)
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > confections or sweetmeats > sweets > [noun] > a sweet > stick or tube
wreath1562
rock1718
sugar stick1825
pipe1843
lemon platt1916
slim jim1916
seaside rock1963
1916 J. Joyce Portrait of Artist ii. 104 He had..eaten slim jim out of his cricket cap.
1925 J. Joyce Let. 31 Oct. (1966) III. 129 This is a kind of sweet meat made of a soft marshmellow jelly which is coated first with pink sugar and then powdered, so far as I remember with cocoanut chips. It is called ‘Slim Jim’ because it is sold in strips about a foot or a foot and a half in length and an inch in breadth.
3. attributive. Designating something long and thin or narrow, as slim-jim pants, slim-jim tie, etc. Also elliptical in plural.
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1916 R. Frost Mountain Interval 60 That ought to make you An ideal one-girl farm, And give you a chance to put some strength On your slim-jim arm.
1956 Amer. Speech 31 307 Frontier Pants..slim jims, long pants, tapered so closely that they must be zipped at the ankles, or must have slits.
1957 Times 12 Nov. (Canada Suppl.) p. xv/4 For miles and miles of suburban area you will rarely see a young woman out of blue jeans, shorts or slim-jim pants during the day.
1960 Guardian 9 Mar. 6/1 Warm flannelette lined corduroy ‘slim jims’.
1962 Times 13 Apr. 6/4 Worthing Museum..is asking for a Teddy boy costume, ‘with narrow trousers, fancy waist~coat, three-quarter jacket, Slim Jim tie and thick-soled crepe sneakers’.
1962 Spectator 27 Apr. 536 The spade ties everyone wore before the slim jims came in.
1973 O. Sela Portuguese Fragment (1974) xi. 61 He wore a long sleeved white shirt and slim-jim tie.

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North American. A long, thin strip of metal, usually with a hooked end, used to unlock or force open the door of a vehicle.
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1978 J. S. Howland Vehicle Anti-Theft Security Syst. Design (U.S. Dept. Transportation) II. iii. 19Slim-Jim’... Another common method used to unlock doors involves use of a thin blade of spring steel with a hook or notch on one end.
2012 C. Stroud Niceville 283 I had a Slim Jim, popped the rear hatch on his Hummer.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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