gimme

noun

Definition of gimmenext
as in walkaway

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Recent Examples of gimme The new-look roster had a lot of jump in the scoreless first period and the Lightning looked like a team that thought the game was going to be a gimme. — Steve Conroy, Boston Herald, 8 Mar. 2025 The four-time major champion missed a crucial gimme, prompting an epic troll job from NYGC's social media team. — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 4 Mar. 2025 That seems to me like a gimme for any president to go and do that. — Lulu Garcia-Navarro, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2025 First, Wednesday, Florida trailed South Carolina — the closest thing to a gimme win in the SEC this year — for the entire game, including by 13 with under nine minutes left. — Brendan Marks, The Athletic, 24 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for gimme
Recent Examples of Synonyms for gimme
  1. walkaway
  2. laugher
  3. sitting duck
  4. nothing
Noun
  • Though if Minnesota were to sell on the lower end, say for $1.5 billion, its walkaway number would be much lower unless the potential buyer agreed to absorb all of the debt, a scenario that is unlikely.
    — Ken Rosenthal, The Athletic, 25 Mar. 2025
  • Donald Trump is suffering an historic descent in the campaign’s final days, an ongoing freefall that’s turning what looked like a walkaway for the former president into what’s most likely a Kamala Harris victory.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 2 Nov. 2024
Definition of walkaway
Noun
  • There was a ripple of audience laugher during the buildup, when a member of the troupe wearing a top hat performed elaborate stretches as though limbering up for a marathon.
    — Houman Barekat, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2025
  • The path to improve from that 9-1 aggregate laugher was bound to require reinforcement from within the league.
    — Jeff Rueter, The Athletic, 14 Feb. 2025
Definition of laugher
Noun
  • Maybe instead of rats the cartoon should show sitting ducks.
    — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 13 Feb. 2025
  • To the Mach 4 missiles, capable of taking out jets maneuvering at high speed , a Shahed is a sitting duck.
    — David Hambling, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2025
Definition of sitting duck
Noun
  • My memoir was built of gaps, juxtaposition, weird little nothings.
    — Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 16 Dec. 2024
  • The one whose legs turned nothings into somethings, improvising the Lions’ entire defensive game plan into a pile of ash?
    — Sean Keeler, The Denver Post, 10 Feb. 2024
Definition of nothing

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“Gimme.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gimme. Accessed 21 Apr. 2025.

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