decrepit person

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• decrepit — Worn out by illness, age, or hard work. A person may be decrepit without being old. Hall v State, 16 Tex App 6 …   Ballentine's law dictionary

• decrepit — /dakrepat/ This term designates a person who is disabled, incapable, or incompetent, either from physical or mental weakness or defects, whether produced by age or other causes, to such an extent as to render the individual comparatively helpless …   Black's law dictionary

• decrepit — /dakrepat/ This term designates a person who is disabled, incapable, or incompetent, either from physical or mental weakness or defects, whether produced by age or other causes, to such an extent as to render the individual comparatively helpless …   Black's law dictionary

• old crock —  Decrepit thing (usu. very old car). Decrepit person …   A concise dictionary of English slang

• crocked — adj. drunk, intoxicated (Slang); decrepit, broken down krÉ’k n. clay jar; someone or something that is old and decrepit (person, horse, etc.); lie, nonsense v. break, damage, injure; make dirty …   English contemporary dictionary

• Carcamano — is a derogatory ethnic name given, in Southern Brazil, to the descendants of the non Iberian European immigrants who arrived to Brazil in the late XIX Century and in the early XX Century. This name was originally given to the Italian Brazilians… …   Wikipedia

• crock — English has two words crock. The one meaning ‘earthenware pot’ [OE] is now almost never heard on its own, except perhaps in the phrase ‘crock of gold’, but it is familiar from its derivative crockery [18]. Its immediate antecedents appear to be… …   The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

• crock — krÉ’k n. clay jar; someone or something that is old and decrepit (person, horse, etc.); lie, nonsense v. break, damage, injure; make dirty …   English contemporary dictionary

• crocking — krÉ’k n. clay jar; someone or something that is old and decrepit (person, horse, etc.); lie, nonsense v. break, damage, injure; make dirty …   English contemporary dictionary

• crocks — krÉ’k n. clay jar; someone or something that is old and decrepit (person, horse, etc.); lie, nonsense v. break, damage, injure; make dirty …   English contemporary dictionary

• crock — English has two words crock. The one meaning ‘earthenware pot’ [OE] is now almost never heard on its own, except perhaps in the phrase ‘crock of gold’, but it is familiar from its derivative crockery [18]. Its immediate antecedents appear to be… …   Word origins