Definition of himbo in English:
himbo
nounPlural himbos ˈhɪmbəʊˈhɪmboʊ
humorous, informal A good-looking but unintelligent young man.
how did she trick audiences conditioned to drool over himbos into falling for a middle-aged guy with a slight case of rheumatism?
Example sentencesExamples
- The blond himbo can actually make a decision?
- She's not going to get over him by locking lips and bumping hips with some pretty little himbo!
- This was a lot of theory to put on a hitherto monosyllabic himbo's shoulders.
- I've got nothing against old people, but you'd never have a woman in her 60s presenting with a himbo.
- But this blond himbo's eagerness to hog credit for the Mystery Gang's success prompts an acrimonious breakup.
- He does seem like just a pretty face without much going on upstairs (a '30s version of the himbo).
- It's truly sad when an animated bit of celluloid from 1969 has more personality, charisma, and raw sex appeal than our bleached bland himbo Fred.
Origin
1980s: blend of him and bimbo.
bimbo from early 20th century:
Bimbos in English are young women, but in Italian a bimbo is a baby, and in English bimbo was originally an American slang term for a fellow or chap, especially a foolish one. In 1947 P. G. Wodehouse wrote of ‘Bimbos who went about the place making passes at innocent girls after discarding their wives’. This meaning is first recorded in 1918, and by the 1920s the modern sense was being used. In the 1980s the word himbo was coined to mean ‘a male bimbo’. At the same time bimbette was coined for a younger bimbo. Compare babe