Etymology From Middle English rim, rym, rime, from Old English rima (“rim, edge, border, bank, coast”), from Proto-Germanic *rimô, *rembô (“edge, border”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *rem-, *remə- (“to rest, support, be based”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Rim (“plank, wooden cross, trellis”), Old Saxon rimi (“edge; border; trim”), Icelandic rimi (“a strip of land”).
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An edge around something, especially when circular.
That's... our galaxy. We're beyond the rim.2007 September 25, Bungie, Halo 3, spoken by Master Chief (Steve Downes), Microsoft Game Studios, Xbox 360, level/area: The Ark:
About an hour later, she noticed an all black Phantom with tints and chrome rims riding slowly through the car lot.2010, Rochelle Magee, No Witnesses: A Perilous Journey, page 36:
COPY READER — Journeyman, experienced makeup, now slot man on metropolitan midwest daily. Will travel for good rim job on large paper.1953 September 26, Editor & Publisher 1953-09-26: Vol 86 Iss 40:
A copy chief with poor people skills makes life miserable for copy editors on the rim; […]2004, John Russial, Strategic Copy Editing, page 130:
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On the rim are copy editors who edit stories for accuracy, brevity and clarity.2009, Gaylon Eugene Murray, Effective Editing, page 7:
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Beverages, Food, Lifestyle, Oenology, Wine The narrow surface of wine that meets the glass when it is tilted, used in identifying the age, body, etc.
Etymology From Middle English rim, rym, rime, from Old English rima (“rim, edge, border, bank, coast”), from Proto-Germanic *rimô, *rembô (“edge, border”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *rem-, *remə- (“to rest, support, be based”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Rim (“plank, wooden cross, trellis”), Old Saxon rimi (“edge; border; trim”), Icelandic rimi (“a strip of land”).
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To form a rim on.
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To follow the contours, possibly creating a circuit.
Palm trees rim the beach.
A walking path rims the island.
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Of a ball To roll around a rim.
Near-synonym: lip out
The golf ball rimmed the cup.
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The basketball rimmed in ... and out.
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To coat the rim of a glass with salt or another powder.
rim
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Etymology From a variation of ream.
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Slang, Vulgar To lick the anus of a partner as a sexual act; to perform anilingus.
I had learned to lick their sweaty balls and would know what they wanted if they pulled their pants down and pushed my face in their ass for a rimming out.1987 December 23, John W. Dagion, Sex Stop:
When she started thrusting her hips back against his finger, he turned her over and rimmed her asshole as he fingered her clit.2008, Lexy Harper, Bedtime Erotica for Freaks (Like Me), page 216:
UK, Dialectal, Obsolete The membrane enclosing the intestines; the peritoneum, hence loosely, the intestines; the lower part of the abdomen; belly.
Moy shall not serve; I will have forty moys; / Or I will fetch thy rim out at thy throat / In drops of crimson blood.1599, Shakespeare, King Henry V, act iV, scene IV - Pistol to a captured French soldier from whom he wants a ransom and whom he does not understand: