Gimp –“The noun gimp is sometimes used to describe a limp or another physical disability, although it’s an outdated and offensive word to use. Gimp was first used in the 1920’s, possibly as a combination of limp and gammy, an old slang word for “bad.”

What does the slang word Gimp mean?

noun. US and Canadian offensive, slang a physically disabled person, esp one who is lame. slang a sexual fetishist who likes to be dominated and who dresses in a leather or rubber body suit with mask, zips, and chains.

Where did the term gimp come from?

gimp (n. 1)

also gymp, ornamental material for trimming dresses, furniture, etc., 1660s, probably from French guimpe, Old French guimple “wimple, headdress, veil” (12c.), from Frankish *wimpil- or some other Germanic source (compare Old High German wimpal, and see wimple).