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WIMP
1. Computing windows, icons, menus (or mice), pointers: denoting a type of user-friendly screen display used on small computers
2. Physics weakly interacting massive particle
WIMP [wimp]
(operating system)WIMP - Windows, Icons, Menus and Pointers (or maybe Windows, Icons, Mouse, Pull-down menus).

The style of graphical user interface invented at Xerox PARC, popularised by the Apple Macintosh and now available in other varieties such as the X Window System, OSF/Motif, NeWS, RISC OS and Microsoft Windows.

See menuitis, user-obsequious, window system.
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The advent of molly-coddling central heating has wimpishly made them that bit too sensitive to the cold.
Lucky we haven't got to deal with a real winter.. by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
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