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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 XL victims - for so they have made themselves out to be - showed us how far we've advanced along the road to wimpishness.
It's only a holiday, for heaven's sake by Birmingham Mail (England)
Europeans may warm to Carter's clear pride in a clean sheet on the use of force - he branded the Iran hostage rescue effort a humanitarian, rather than a military, mission so as to maintain the purity of his record - but too many Americans saw that as wimpishness.
'I have moral authority' by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk
It's too easy to laugh it off as yet another example of our lack of adventure and general wimpishness where food is concerned.
Food News by Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England)
 
 
 
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