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Wimp

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Wimp, WIMP or Wimps may refer to:

Science and technology

  • Weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs), a hypothetical particle of dark matter
  • WIMP (computing), the "window, icon, menu, pointer" paradigm
  • WIMP (software bundle), the web stack of Windows, IIS, MySQL, and PHP/Perl/Python

Arts and entertainment

  • WiMP, a defunct music streaming service
  • WURH-CD (former call signs WIMP-LP, WIMP-CA, and WIMP-CD), a television station licensed to serve Miami, Florida, US
  • Wimps (band), a US punk rock band

People

  • Wimp Sanderson (born 1937), retired basketball coach known as "Wimp"
  • Kay Davis or Katherine McDonald Wimp (1920–2012), jazz singer
  • Mary Baumgartner, also known as "Wimp" (1930–2018), former female baseball catcher

See also

  • WIMP Argon Programme, a cold dark matter experiment at Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Italy
  • "The Diary of Horace Wimp", a track on the Electric Light Orchestra album Discovery
  • Wimpy (disambiguation)
  • Farkle (Wimp Out), a dice game that has also been called or is similar to 1000/5000/10000, Cosmic Wimpout, Greed, Hot Dice, Squelch, Zilch, or Zonk
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