noun
definition
An irregular, jerky or awkward gait.
example
She walks with a limp.
definition
A scraper for removing poor ore or refuse from the sieve.
verb
definition
To walk lamely, as if favouring one leg.
definition
(of a vehicle) To travel with a malfunctioning system of propulsion.
example
The bomber limped home on one engine.
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To move or proceed irregularly.
example
The business limped through the recession
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To call, particularly in an unraised pot pre-flop.
Examples of limp in a Sentence
She held his limp hand and fought back panic.
Charles was limp in his grip.
He'll limp around for a week or so and then he'll be fine.
He went limp, and she struggled to hold him up.
He carefully hefted her limp body and held her against him like a child.
He walked with a slight limp and his gaunt frame was gangly.
Her body went totally limp.
Rhyn followed, painfully aware of the limp mortal body in his arms.
She darted for the barn, the kid's feet dangling like limp ropes.
But his limp is the only indication that he is Lucifer fallen from heaven.
He walked with a slight limp and looked older than thirty-six.
The body went limp.
He grabbed the child under his arm and after dropping the now limp boy on the other side, climbed back over.
Stepping into the room, he took the book from a limp hand and placed it quietly on the night stand.
He started to say something to the fleeing attendant but instead lifted the limp body up in his arms to a more reasonable position and carefully carried her out to the anteroom.
The sun was warm and he walked with a slight limp but an easy stride, past the shops of the small central section to the west side of the quiet town.
Her eyes were bloodshot but otherwise she looked pale lying on the sheets like a limp doll.
It wasn't until her body went totally limp in his arms that he realized just how small she was.
He wrapped his arms around her, drawing her limp frame against him.
She slid into unconsciousness after a few minutes, and her body went limp.
She noticed his limp.
Her body seized, then fell limp.
If you have any limp at all my OS told me to continue using them until I could walk a normal gait.
But he paid a price and was left with a permanent limp.
If hair is dull, dry, and limp, even the best style can't resurrect it.
Excessive chemicals and heat styling such as curling irons or hair straighteners can leave hair limp and dry.
Straightening irons flatten, seal the cuticle, and add maximum shine to limp, curly and wavy hair.
Flat, limp hair can easily be avoided with some understanding of the right cuts for fine hair.
For loose perms, you may choose to simply wash and go, or use your texture to add some volume to an otherwise limp hairstyle.
A sluggish thyroid is suspected to contribute to thin, brittle hair, while a thyroid in overdrive may create limp, greasy-looking hair.
A summer dress that becomes soaked with sweat easily goes limp and needs regular washing.
Now, beginning with your extremities, start to methodically relax each body part until you are able to allow your whole body to go limp.
Avoiding his eyes as she walked past him, she tried not to limp.
General Greene motioned them forward, slowing when he saw Dan limp.
She gasped at the sudden pinch as it snapped into place, and her body went limp.
Ethel would have listed him as a lazy, unambitious civil servant with a lifestyle as exciting as limp toast.
He then carried Cynthia Byrne's limp but still drenched and shivering body through the connecting door to her bed and laid her on one of the towels.
She lay limp in his arms, startled and afraid to respond - afraid the kiss meant nothing to him.
The Other's body seized up then went limp, its head lolling back, as it lost the ability to move.
There was a slight altercation, then the guards came out again dragging a limp form.
Bottled beer stood under a shelf, and there were two bags of haricot beans and some limp lettuces.
Josie has been really miserable; she came down with something that made her very hot and limp and rather bleary looking on Wednesday.
These limp jokes server only to dump me out of the games carefully calibrated dread machine.
Charlton also saw influential midfielder chapman limp off in the 19th minute as Husselbee made her senior bow for the Addicks.
Shake some very limp hands and feel embarrassingly hearty.
He squints against smoke trailing from the cigarette butt, hanging limp from his mouth.
His opponent flailed wildly and then fell limp - the fight nigh-on choked out of him.
The Earl of Carrick, now heir to the throne, was a sickly man with a pronounced limp.
The mud proved to be slowing Walter down as well as a slight limp from where he must have twisted his ankle.
Even the rather limp ' Walking Barefoot ' stands out.