trimmen

  1. to work out, especially to jog
  2. to trim the hair of a dog or a horse

Frequency

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Etymology

In summary

Ca. 1900, from English trim, from Old English trymman. The sense “work out” perhaps after the English expression keep in trim. This sense appears simultaneously in Dutch and German in the later 1960s, so one may have borrowed it from the other.

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