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Funny, I don't even use The GIMP, and I think of it as "The GNU Image Manipulation Program" before I think of the BDSM meaning (or the handicap slur).
I'm weird. And probably the exception.
To be honest, I think you're in the majority. Non-native speakers will know it almost exclusively as the image manipulation program.
Handicap slur?
As in a “gimp leg”. Another old term in the same vein would be “lame”. But then those terms could be used to describe a person as a whole, becoming the slur.
Ooh. I don't think I've encountered the term used like that before.