Well, if for any reason you went "hey, what the hell does that mean" and decided to look it up: - (informal offensive) an unpleasant or stupid person:

Well, if for any reason you went "hey, what the hell does that mean" and decided to look it up: - (informal offensive) an unpleasant or stupid person: - (informal offensive) a person with a physical disability, especially one that affects someone's legs - (informal) a limp (= a way of walking slowly and with difficulty because of having an injured or painful leg or foot ) - a person who gets sexual pleasure from being hurt or treated badly (https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/gimp https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/gimp) And it's not like this is super obscure or anything. The "most influential film of the 90s", Pulp Fiction, literally had a character that was "the gimp". This is pretty mainstream. This is along the lines of "Hey co-worker, I found the best text editor the other day. It's called pizdă, you should give it a try! Pizdă seems like it would help you!" But hey, GIMP is taking it back (https://www.gimp.org/docs/userfaq.html#i-dont-like-the-name-gimp-will-you-change-it https://www.gimp.org/docs/userfaq.html#i-dont-like-the-name-...) any day now. It's only been 25+ years. Any day now.