noun General Slang

dimp

· noun · mancunian

A cigarette butt — the bit left in the ashtray.

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Definitions

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A cigarette stub or butt. The unsmoked end left over after you've had your fill — or, in leaner times, the next half-smoke when you're skint.

“Bin's full of dimps round the back of the kitchen door.”
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dimp In A Sentence

Bin's full of dimps round the back of the kitchen door.

Origin & Usage

Manchester and Lancashire dialect, going back to working-class smoking culture where dimps got saved, re-rolled or scrounged off mates outside the pub.

Variants dimpsdimpie

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