Glamour: Kelly Osbourne Rocked a Skintight Heart-Shaped Cut-Out Dress for Her Birthday Fittingly, the British talk-show personality stepped out in an eye-catching look built around a cream-colored floor-length gown featuring a heart-shaped cutout over the bust. She kept the rest of her ... Bimbo doesn't quite work for me.

Understanding the Context

The women in this picture are dressed how I envision "bimbo." (This is actually one of those "painted" cut-outs you stick your head through for a photograph, but I think it gets the point across.) Bimbo means she dresses in a sexy manner: i.e. tight clothing, high heels, lots of cleavage, etc. But when describing a figure in a picture, the simple present works just as well as the present continuous tense. These are quotes from art books: The other three servants in Vermeer's paintings wear brown dresses … the sitter wears a white stock and a red sash … in the portrait the Queen wears a small white head covering and carries a missal in her left hand Please tell us where you found these sentences.

Key Insights

”Clean up good” has nothing to do with cleaning a house or being diligent. It means the person is surprisingly attractive when he or she gets cleaned up, dresses nicely, etc. A "trans-sexual" is someone who dresses and acts like a member of the opposite gender but who does not go so far as to take hormones and/or have surgery to make the change. A "trans-gender" person is someone who "becomes" the opposite gender through hormones and surgery. A man orders 20 dresses that he will sell in his shop, but some of the dresses are not of the colours that he ordered: He says "A number of the dresses are wrong."