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Word of opposition to local civic projects
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nimby
Alternative clues for the word nimby
- Someone who objects to something being sited in their own locality
- Acronym used to protest nearby landfills
- Modern political acronym
- "Keep that out of our town!" acronym
- 'Anywhere else!' acronym
- Pejorative initialism said for those who want wind farms, only nowhere near their homes
- Local protest acronym
- Acronym used to protest environmental hazards nearby
- Acronym used to protest potential environmental hazards nearby
Word definitions for nimby in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
acronym for not in my back yard , 1980, American English, supposedly coined by Walter Rodgers of the American Nuclear Society.
Usage examples of nimby.
Nimby get even a little curious about what human love and bleep was all about?
Then she sat on Nimby dragon, and Tweeter perched on her hair, and she invoked the crime against nature.
Then Chena did the next, and so on, until only Nimby and Jim were left outside.
It was worse for Nimby than for Chlorine, because as a Demon he had not had natural functions, and in manform he had simply used magic to abate those he didn't care for.