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lame person

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  • lame — adj a. poor quality, disappointing, bad. The common colloquialism was adopted as an all purpose teenage vogue word from the late 1980s. b. unfortunate, unfair Based either on the colloquial sense of lame meaning poor (as in lame excuse ), or on… …   Contemporary slang

  • lame duck — ˌlame ˈduck noun [countable] informal 1. a politician or a government that no longer has any real power or authority: • A bad defeat for his party in October risks making him a lame duck for the remaining two years of his presidency. 2. COMMERCE… …   Financial and business terms

  • Lame — (l[=a]m), a. [Compar. {Lamer} (l[=a]m [ e]r); superl. {Lamest}.] [OE. lame, AS. lama; akin to D. lam, G. lahm, OHG., Dan., & Sw. lam, Icel. lami, Russ. lomate to break, lomota rheumatism.] 1. (a) Moving with pain or difficulty on account of… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Lame duck — Lame Lame (l[=a]m), a. [Compar. {Lamer} (l[=a]m [ e]r); superl. {Lamest}.] [OE. lame, AS. lama; akin to D. lam, G. lahm, OHG., Dan., & Sw. lam, Icel. lami, Russ. lomate to break, lomota rheumatism.] 1. (a) Moving with pain or difficulty on… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • lame´-duck´ — lame duck, 1. U.S. a public official, especially a Congressman, who has been defeated for reelection and is serving the last part of his term: »Like a lame duck President, a Prime Minister who is known to be on the way out cannot command… …   Useful english dictionary

  • lame — lame1 [lām] adj. [ME < OE lama, akin to Ger lahm, ON lami < IE base * lem , to break > Russ lomat , to break] 1. crippled; disabled; esp., having an injured leg or foot that makes one limp 2. stiff and very painful [a lame back] 3. poor …   English World dictionary

  • lame duck — lame duck, adj. 1. an elected official or group of officials, as a legislator, continuing in office during the period between an election defeat and a successor s assumption of office. 2. a president who is completing a term of office and chooses …   Universalium

  • lame duck — 1761, any disabled person or thing; especially Stock Exchange slang for defaulter. A lame duck is a man who cannot pay his differences, and is said to waddle off. [Thomas Love Peacock, Gryll Grange, 1861] Sometimes also in naval use for an old,… …   Etymology dictionary

  • lame duck — n 1.) a person, business etc that is having problems and needs help 2.) lame duck president/governor/legislature etc informal a president, ↑governor etc with no real power because his or her period in office will soon end …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • lame duck — lame′ duck′ n. 1) gov an elected official or group continuing in office in the period between an election defeat and a successor s assumption of office 2) cvb gov a president who is completing a term of office and chooses not to run or is… …   From formal English to slang

  • lame duck — ► NOUN 1) an ineffectual or unsuccessful person or thing. 2) N. Amer. a President or administration in the final period of office, after the election of a successor …   English terms dictionary

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