Wimp

Wimp, WIMP, or Wimps may refer to:

Science and technology

• Weakly interacting massive particle, a hypothetical particle of dark matter
• WIMP (computing), the "window, icon, menu, pointer" paradigm
• WIMP (software bundle), the web stack of Windows, IIS, MySQL, and PHP/Perl/Python

Arts and entertainment

• WiMP, a defunct music streaming service
• WURH-CD (former call signs WIMP-LP, WIMP-CA, and WIMP-CD), a television station licensed to serve Miami, Florida, US
• Wimps (band), a US punk rock band
• Wimp, played by Rick Lawless, a character on the TV sitcom Herman's Head

People

• Wimp Sanderson (born 1937), retired basketball coach known as "Wimp"
• Kay Davis or Katherine McDonald Wimp (1920–2012), jazz singer
• Mary Baumgartner, also known as "Wimp" (1930–2018), former female baseball catcher
• derogatory term for a coward

See also

• Farkle (Wimp Out), a dice game that has also been called or is similar to 1000/5000/10000, Cosmic Wimpout, Greed, Hot Dice, Squelch, Zilch, or Zonk
• "The Diary of Horace Wimp", a track on the Electric Light Orchestra album Discovery
• WIMP Argon Programme, a cold dark matter experiment at Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Italy
• Wimpy (disambiguation)