Gimpy Explained

Gimpy is a derogatory descriptor of someone who has a limp. It may also refer to:

A person's nickname:

• Lloyd Brown (1904–1974), American Major League Baseball pitcher
• Stephen Mowlam (born 1976), Australian field hockey goalkeeper
• Dean O'Banion (1892–1924), Irish-American mobster and rival of Al Capone in the 1920s
• Milt Pappas (1939–2016), American Major League Baseball pitcher
• Gwen Verdon (1925–2000), American actress and dancer whose childhood nickname was "Gimpy"

Fictional characters:

• Gimpy, a main character in the animated television series Undergrads
• "Gimpy" McHenry, protagonist of Manpower (1941 film), played by Edward G. Robinson
• "Gimpy" Smith, a main character in Streets of New York (1939 film)
• Colonel Gimpy, villain of Crack-Up (1936 film), played by Peter Lorre

Other uses:

• Nickname for the General-purpose machine gun, particularly by the British armed forces

See also

• "Gympie gympie" – colloquial name for the Australian "stinging brush" or Dendrocnide moroides