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An autistic adult stimming with a fidget toy.

Clipping of stimulation.

stim (plural stims)

1. Any repetitive self-stimulating action. Prototypically done by autistic people to combat a lack of or excessive stimulation and also done by neurotypical people.

stim (third-person singular simple present stims, present participle stimming, simple past and past participle stimmed)

1. To perform such an action.

• stimming on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

From stimulant.

stim (plural stims)

1. (slang) A stimulant drug.

• ISTM, ITSM, MIST, MiST, Smit, TIMS, TIMs, TMIs, Tims, mist, smit

From Old Norse stím.

stim m (definite singular stimen, indefinite plural stimer, definite plural stimene)

stim n (definite singular stimet, indefinite plural stim, definite plural stima or stimene)

1. a school or shoal (group of fish)

• fiskestim

• “stim” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse stím.

stim m (definite singular stimen, indefinite plural stimar, definite plural stimane)

1. a school or shoal (group of fish)

• fiskestim

• “stim” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Old Norse stím.

stim n

1. a school (a group of fish)

• fittstim
• stimma
• STIM
• torskstim

• mist

From Old Frisian stemme, from Proto-Germanic *stamnijō.

• IPA^(key): /stɪm/

stim c (plural stimmen, diminutive stimke)

1. voice
2. vote

• “stim”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011