bimbo

noun

bim·​bo ˈbim-(ˌ)bō 

plural bimbos

1

informal + disparaging : woman

especially : an attractive but vacuous woman

2

dated slang, usually disparaging : man, fellow

… no recently engaged bimbo cares to discover that he was not the little woman's first choice.

—P. G. Wodehouse

Examples of bimbo in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Pedretti, meanwhile, commits fully to her bimbo persona, oscillating between titillating absurdism and unexpected discomfort. —Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 25 Mar. 2026

That explains the three bimbos, three men [Skarsgård, Pierce Brosnan, and Colin Firth]. —Rebecca Ford, Vanity Fair, 24 Feb. 2026

With her rich husband and expensive clothes, Pelosi was assumed by many of her new colleagues to be a dilettante or even a bimbo. —Molly Ball, Time, 6 Nov. 2025

Word History

Etymology

perhaps from Italian bimbo baby

First Known Use

1918, in the meaning defined at sense 2

Rhymes for bimbo

• limbo

Geographical Definition

Bimbo

geographical name

Bim·​bo ˈbēm-bō 

town, the second most populous in the Central African Republic, located south-southwest of Bangui on the Ubangi River across from the Democratic Republic of the Congo population 124,000