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Samberg, 27, hit it big on his third self-made video, Lazy Sunday, a rap with Chris Parnell which boasted, gangster-style, of the wimpiest activities imaginable: buying a baker's dozen of cupcakes, seeing The Chronicles of Narnia, using Google maps, yelling out movie-trivia answers at the screen and spending $10 bills: "Roll up in the theater. Ticket buying's what we handle. You can call us Aaron Burrs from the way we're dropping Hamiltons." The video, thanks to the Internet, became an instant classic. Within weeks there were Bakers Dozen T shirts and rap video responses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Straight Outta Narnia | 4/17/2006 | See Source »

...general, Hammered activities range from ice skating to wiffle ball to live performances. Their largest annual event is their fall “Wimpy Body Contest.” “We try to get all of the wimpiest guys on campus and try to do a Miss America type pageant with them,” Finkel says. Breckman proudly adds, “I won the first year it was done...

Author: By Evan M. Vittor, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Hammered | 4/22/2004 | See Source »

...Even the wimpiest Harvard students harbor dreams of Muhammed Ali glory. But few are brave enough to float like butterflies and sting like bees. FM’s Véronique E. Hyland takes a ringside seat in Harvard’s own version of Fight Club—boxing practice...

Author: By Véronique E. Hyland, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Easy Riders, Raging Bulls | 10/9/2003 | See Source »

Perhaps they mean no harm. After all, if they really wanted to run roughshod over convention, they might have gone for the more muscular "working class" or even dusted off the dread "proletariat." Middle class is the wimpiest term in the lexicon of social taxonomy, meaning little more than not rich, not poor. Ask what class we're in, and we all shrug modestly and say, "Middle, you know, like everyone else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Double-Talk: About Class | 3/2/1992 | See Source »

...time, Dolby also has been producing a much-touted band from Scotland with the world's wimpiest name, Prefab Sprout. Contrary to popular belief, this group, headed by the brothers McAloon, did not pick up their moniker from a vegetarian dish at a SoHo restaurant--but they might as well have. Soft-pop is a term too readily used by critics: lately, it serves to describe everyone from Huey Lewis to X. Instead, let's call this musical melange soft-porn: it is that foul...

Author: By Ari Z. Posner, | Title: Vinyl in Boston | 10/10/1985 | See Source »

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