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slim jim|slɪm dʒɪm|
Also slim Jim, Slim Jim.
[Rhyming combination of slim a. and the proper name Jim.]
A very slim or thin person.
1889‘Mark Twain’ Conn. Yankee xxxix. 500 Go it, slim Jim!
2. transf. (See quot. 1925.)
1916Joyce Portrait of Artist ii. 104 He had..eaten slim jim out of his cricket cap. 1925― Let. 31 Oct. (1966) III. 129 This is a kind of sweet meat made of a soft marshmellow jelly which is coated first with pink sugar and then powdered, so far as I remember with cocoanut chips. It is called ‘Slim Jim’ because it is sold in strips about a foot or a foot and a half in length and an inch in breadth.
3. attrib. Designating something long and thin or narrow, as slim-jim pants, slim jim tie, etc. Also ellipt. in pl.
1916R. Frost Mountain Interval 60 That ought to make you An ideal one-girl farm, And give you a chance to put some strength On your slim-jim arm. 1956Amer. Speech XXXI. 307 Frontier Pants..slim jims, long pants, tapered so closely that they must be zipped at the ankles, or must have slits. 1957[see jean 2 b]. 1960Guardian 9 Mar. 6/1 Warm flannelette lined corduroy ‘slim jims’. 1962Times 13 Apr. 6/4 Worthing Museum..is asking for a Teddy boy costume, ‘with narrow trousers, fancy waist⁓coat, three-quarter jacket, Slim Jim tie and thick-soled crepe sneakers’. 1962Spectator 27 Apr. 536 The spade ties everyone wore before the slim jims came in. 1973O. Sela Portuguese Fragment (1974) xi. 61 He wore a long sleeved white shirt and slim-jim tie. |