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"Build it somewhere else" acronym
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nimby
Alternative clues for the word nimby
- Word of opposition to local civic projects
- Acronym used to protest new landfills
- New setter's joining Times, a selfish sort?
- Acronym used to protest nearby landfills
- Somewhere else and I might not object!
- Acronym for protesting local construction projects
- "Anywhere but here" acronym
- Selfish social outlook, for short
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.
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
NIMBY (an acronym for the phrase " Not In My Back Yard "), or Nimby (as a word, instead of an acronym), is a pejorative characterization of opposition by residents to a proposal for a new development because it is close to them (or, in some cases, because ...
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.