Talk:chimp out

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chimp out

4chan neologism, don't think it's attested well enough to get an entry. — Mnemosientje (t · c) 12:08, 20 December 2018 (UTC)

It is quite common in Usenet thread titles. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] Not exclusively used of black people either. ←₰-→ Lingo ^Bingo _Dingo (talk) 14:36, 20 December 2018 (UTC)

An expression like this needs citations in the entry. Other reputable dictionaries don't have it and the usage label, if even warranted, needs support. DCDuring (talk) 16:26, 20 December 2018 (UTC)

I'd estimate that around 25% of all the hits on Google Groups are used along with some variant of nigger, so somehow indicating that it is often used of black people by racists seems reasonable. ←₰-→ Lingo ^Bingo _Dingo (talk) 09:57, 21 December 2018 (UTC)

Regarding the current label of "offensive when said of black people", is it not also offensive when said of other people? Would a label like "derogatory, offensive, especially of black people" work? The only entry I spotted which used "racist" as a context label was schvartze (which, because it did seem to be the only such entry, I edited to use "derogatory"). You could also add a usage note. - -sche (discuss) 05:36, 24 December 2018 (UTC)

@-sche I am not sure, the vast majority of Usenet results where it is used in a clearly racist way of white people are by one very productive ranter. It does not seem like it is commonly used of other demographics. ←₰-→ Lingo ^Bingo _Dingo (talk) 08:17, 24 December 2018 (UTC)

I think that ape and monkey pejoratives ARE perceived as beyond normal insults when said to blacks by non-blacks. In other situations it simply refers to someone raging in a violent, animalistic manner. Sadly Commons doesn't have any videos of raging chimpanzees to illustrate the animal behavior. DCDuring (talk) 03:46, 25 December 2018 (UTC)

RFV-passed Kiwima (talk) 21:10, 1 January 2019 (UTC)

Another sense?

• 1996, James Hawes, A White Merc with Fins:

  ... o'clock in the foyer of Baron Films and Fred was sitting on the receptionettes' desk and kicking his heels, one after the other, staring ahead of himself in absolute repose, his eyes completely chimped-out , and I was sitting […]

• 2020 August 3, Carrie Chang, Dim Sum Days, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN:

  she expresses passionately, with a vile stomp, and again the bout of endless tears in her exquisite, almond-shaped eyes, preening in the chimped-out reflection in the cold ulterior mirror, which refracts an expression of mock-surprise […]

also, perhaps in reference to typing something like a monkey on a typewriter:

• 1990, Ben Sloane, Horn: Hot Zone, Gold Eagle, →ISBN:

  Up until then he had carried out orders, crunched numbers and chimped out reports, mostly in fear of Fine's demented wrath if he screwed up something. Now he had really screwed up, and Fine was letting him glimpse the big picture.

- -sche (discuss) 04:02, 29 April 2022 (UTC)

@-sche: Unrelated. chimp means something like “to pick; to separate in sprouts, spreizen causative of sprießen”, also missed by OED but found in some dialects, Wright, Joseph (1898) The English Dialect Dictionary‎^[8], volume 1, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pages 585–586 is detailled enough; “young shoot” and “to pick off the young shoots” must also be somewhere in the works of William Barnes according to his glossaries. Fay Freak (talk) 00:18, 9 May 2022 (UTC)