Wimp may refer to:
- A physical or emotional weakling (considered to be derived from J. Wellington Wimpy, a character in the popeye cartoon series). J Wellington Wimpy, or just Wimpy, is one of the characters in the long-running comic strip Thimble Theater, and in the Popeye cartoons based upon the
WIMP, as an acronym, may refer to:
- Weakly interacting massive particle, a hypothetical class of matter. In Astrophysics, weakly interacting massive particles or WIMPs are hypothetical particles serving as one possible solution to the Dark matter problem
- WIMP (computing), an acronym for "window, icon, menu, pointer" or "windows, icons, mice and pointers". In Human–computer interaction, WIMP stands for " window, icon, menu, Pointing device " denoting a style of interaction
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