stim

plural stims

1. informaluncountableSensory stimulation.

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   “Electric therapy has been used in medicine for thousands of years,” says Ken Rusche, director of Wellington Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation Center, a physical therapist and athletic trainer. “[…] Electrical stim is being used in the field of medicine for rehabilitation and strengthening after injuries. […]”

   1986 January, Joan Fox, “Can You Get Tanned and Trim Without Sun or Exercise?”, in Cincinnati, volume 19, number 4, →ISSN, page 102

2. autismhuman sciencesAny repetitive self-stimulatory behavior (e.g. hand flapping, head banging, repeating noises or words), frequent in autistic people.

   Autistic people often stim with the help of technologies such as music and stim toys or tools to mediate between inner worlds and outer environments that may over/underwhelm us. […] At the beginning of March 2020, I discovered that many of the stims I regularly turned to were no longer accessible.

   2021, Erin Felepchuk, “Stimming, Improvisation, and COVID-19: (Re)negotiating Autistic Sensory Regulation During a Pandemic”, in Disability Studies Quarterly, volume 41, number 3, archived from the original on 22 Jan 2022

   Synonyms: self-stimulation, self-stim

3. countablemedicineAny drug that stimulates a woman's ovaries to produce eggs.

present singular third person stims · participle present stimming · participle past stimmed · past stimmed

1. intransitivehuman sciencesTo perform such a repetitive self-stimulatory action.

   Autistic people often stim with the help of technologies such as music and stim toys or tools to mediate between inner worlds and outer environments that may over/underwhelm us.

   2021, Erin Felepchuk, “Stimming, Improvisation, and COVID-19: (Re)negotiating Autistic Sensory Regulation During a Pandemic”, in Disability Studies Quarterly, volume 41, number 3, archived from the original on 22 Jan 2022

plural stims

1. slangSynonym of stimulant (“drug”).

   Synonyms: stimulant

plural stims

1. IrelandrareA whit or jot; the least amount.

   That boy hasn't a stim of common sense.

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   [I]f she wishes to see them at their sport, she has only to make a ring out of a thraneen, and look at them through it, and she will see them in all their bravery with their fox-glove caps and green jerkins, capering to the sound of a bag-pipe, with a lurikeen playing it, and he sitting on a fairy mushroom; but she will never see a stim with that eye again.

   1869, Patrick Kennedy, Evenings in the Duffrey, Dublin: M'Glashan and Gill, page 6