quimp

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quimp

slang In comic panel speech, a picture or symbol representing Saturn or another celestial body used in a string of other symbols to indicate spoken profanity. For some reason, the artist of this comic strip seems to prefer quimps over all other symbols when making his characters swear.

quimp

(kʍɪmp)

n. a total jerk; a social outcast. (Also a term of address.) I don’t want to live in a dorm full of quimps.

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Allen Quimp Douglas McGrath Daisy Quimp Sigourney Weaver Crocker Johnson John Turturro Fidel Castro Anthony LaPaglia Rudolph Petrov Ryan Phillippe Fry Denis Leary Lowther Woody Allen Gen.

Pic begins, in the wake of the Bay of Pigs debacle, with a two-senator panel interrogating CIA officer Allen Quimp (co-scripter/co-helmer Douglas McGrath).

She and her dad badger Quimp mercilessly to get a big-bucks managerial post in Manhattan.

While in the steam bath at the Valencia Country Club with his father-in-law, Quimp avers that teaching is just a cover for his real job in the CIA.

The CIA ends up welcoming Quimp into the fold so the agency can take credit for Petrov's move.

Quimp is shipped to "a Third World backwater" -- Cuba -- where local CIA station chief Lowther (Woody Allen) says that Quimp's predecessor, Crocker Johnson, was a lunatic who kept insisting the island was on the brink of armed revolution, and that there's a mole, Agent X, passing secrets to the Russians.

COMPANY MAN

Also known as jarns, nittles, and quimp Rasceta The creases on the inside of your wrist L'esprit d'escalier Moment an excellent retort comes to mind but too late for the argument.