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What is a chimo?
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#110552. Asked by star_gazer.
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looney_tunes

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MANY THINGS!
Chimo may refer to:
* Chimo, a word of greeting, farewell, and toast before drinking once widely spoken in the Inuktitut language in northern Canada
o A greeting still in use in some parts of Southern Ontario and Western Canada
o The cheer of the Canadian Military Engineers
* the 223 Royal Canadian Sea Cadets Corps CHIMO, founded in 1970 at Longueuil, Quebec (re-named 223 RCSCC LONGUEUIL in the mid 1980s)
* Chimo, an active softball league founded in Brossard, Québec in 1979[3]
* Chimo (orca), the only white killer whale displayed in captivity, at Sealand of the Pacific from 1970-72
* Chimo!, 1960s Canadian rock band
* Chimo Bayo, 1990s Spanish dance act
* Chimo, a very strong tobacco paste taken orally, principally in Venezuela and adjacent countries
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimo
*Pronounced Chy-Mo. Combination of child and molester. Use as code whenever a suspicious looking man (or woman) is around to alert everyone.
*Though short for "child molester," chimo is often used to describe high school seniors dating high school freshman.
*A word used to describe a violent bout of diarrhea.
Abbreviated form: Chim (pronounced "Cheem")
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=chimo
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unclerick
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Chimo was also the name of a naval radio facility located in northern Quebec. It was located at the site of Fort Chimo a former Hudsons Bay Company trading post.
Chimo is an adaption of the Inuktitut word "saimuk" meaning "lets shake hands".
http://jproc.ca/rrp/chimo.html
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