IMP
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IMP
▶abbreviation Bridge International Match Point.
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imp/ɪmp/
▶noun a mischievous child.
■ a small, mischievous devil or sprite.
▶verb repair a damaged feather in (the wing of a trained hawk) by attaching part of a new feather.– origin OE (in ME denoting a descendant of the devil or an evil person): impa, impe ‘young shoot, scion’, from impian ‘to graft’, based on Gk emphuein ‘to implant’.
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