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  • noun Plural form of stim.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of stim.

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Examples

  • Slightly awkward facial expressions, ticks or 'stims', and itches to make certain noises/gestures.

    Wrong Planet Asperger / Autism Forums 2009

  • I have super awkward facial expressions and plentiful "stims" although they are all pretty mild and, at this point, easy to hide in public in most cases.

    Wrong Planet Asperger / Autism Forums 2009

  • But Jacob rose to the occasion—granted, with stims and tics.

    HOUSE RULES JODI PICOULT 2010

  • I summoned Mikey and within a few minutes he staggered in, still befuddled from his play stims.

    Burning Brightly 2009

  • My own medicine cabinet, with all the behavior modifiers I could ever need, uppers for perk, downers for sleep, Xers for parties, stims for work, and blissers for play, but no b-mod could help me now.

    Skinned Robin Wasserman 2008

  • My own medicine cabinet, with all the behavior modifiers I could ever need, uppers for perk, downers for sleep, Xers for parties, stims for work, and blissers for play, but no b-mod could help me now.

    Skinned Robin Wasserman 2008

  • Your stims, as you call them, are paltry things compared to the Sundrop.

    Shadow Hunters Christie Golden 2007

  • She starts with the stims, and when that path proves untenable and gets shut down, she decides to become A Starbuck.

    Starbuck Is Dead, Long Live Starbuck and Other "Scar" Thoughts Abigail Nussbaum 2006

  • We all know that this stims form hoxes related to sept 11, pipebombs, anthrax, bombers.

    Students Plant Mailbox Bombs at cvillenews.com 2002

  • He had no more need for stims no more need for meds.

    ART’S APPRECIATION by Tom Doyle | Fiction | Futurismic 2004

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