zimmer

plural zimmers

1. Alternative letter-case form of Zimmer (“Zimmer frame”).

   I've seen three of them with zimmers. I mean that floor's slippery - I only polished it this morning. But would they listen? They shouldn't be out on a night like this. It's bitter.

   2001 March 29, Gervase Phinn, Over Hill and Dale, Penguin UK, →ISBN

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   And old men, one with a bumbag, a couple with zimmers, there's people all over the gold carousel, banners, whistles, the works. I'm right beside a circle of older women drumming - they look like some of the women in my team at work, but they're drumming […]

   2018 November 4, Rachael Boulton, Exodus, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN

plural Zimmers

1. CommonwealthIrelandUKabbreviationellipsisEllipsis of Zimmer frame.

   As the day passes away, and body clocks begin to stutter, there are also physical assaults with Zimmers locked in combat like the horns of fighting stags.

   2014, Roger Kirkpatrick, Final Chapters: Writings About the End of Life, page 52

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   He cites Rockers Reunion, in January, the first big rock’n’roll all-dayer of the year. “My reviewer made the point that everybody seems to be on sticks and Zimmers.”

   2025 October 20, Michael Hann, “‘Everyone seems to be on Zimmers’: after 70 years of hip-shaking thrills, is rock’n’roll dead?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

1. A surname from German.