bimbo
Americannoun
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bimbos,
plural
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bimboes
plural
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Also bimbette an attractive but stupid young woman.
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a foolish, stupid, or inept person.
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a man or fellow, often a disreputable or contemptible one.
noun
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an attractive but empty-headed young woman
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a person, esp a foolish one
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Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of bimbo
First recorded in 1915–20, perhaps from Italian bimbo “baby”
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Thankfully, Kristine Froseth adds pep as a bimbo who hasn’t yet learned how to talk as leadenly as everyone else.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2026
Avantika Vandanapu plays the role of "bimbo" Karen Shetty in the new Mean Girls musical and feels it's a chance to change perceptions around South Asians in the film industry.
From BBC ● Jan. 29, 2024
After all, bimbo was injected into the political lexicon by Bill Clinton’s aide Betsey Wright in the early 1990s—a move that she now deeply regrets.
From Slate ● Apr. 22, 2019
I think I’m the only person who can say that I’ve reached “the bimbo trifecta” because I am a natural blonde, a former Miss America, and I’m a Fox News host.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 1, 2015
"Marina!" he pleaded, growing eloquent, with a last desperate effort, "thou wast ever an angel to the Zuanino—thou canst not leave thine own bimbo!"
From A Golden Book of Venice by Mrs. Lawrence Turnbull
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