limp

To walk lamely, as if favoring one leg.intransitive

• Dirk Kuyt sandwiched a goal in between Carroll's double as City endured a night of total misery, with captain Carlos Tevez limping off early on with a hamstring strain that puts a serious question mark over his participation in Saturday's F

To travel with a malfunctioning system of propulsion.figurativelyintransitive

• The bomber limped home on one engine.

To move or proceed irregularly.figurativelyintransitive

• limping verses
• The business limped through the recession

To call, particularly in an unraised pot pre-flop.intransitiveslang

An irregular, jerky or awkward gait.

• She walks with a limp.

A scraper for removing poor ore or refuse from the sieve.

Flaccid; flabby, resembling flesh.

Lacking stiffness; floppy, flimsy.

• a limp rope

Soft; weak, especially physically.

• Another line-out was stolen, and when the ball was sent left Clerc stepped and spun through limp challenges from Wilkinson, Chris Ashton and Foden to dive over and make it 11-0.

Not erect.slang

Not having an erection.slang

To be inadequate or unsatisfactory.intransitivestative

A scraper of board or sheet-iron shaped like half the head of a small cask, used for scraping the ore off the sieve in the operation of hand-jigging.

To happen; befall; chance.intransitiveobsolete

To come upon; meet.obsoletetransitive

Acronym of Louis XIV, James II, Queen Mary of Modena and the Prince of Wales (a code-word among Jacobites)abbreviationacronymalt-of

• Even if he were set at liberty, what could he do but haunt Jacobite coffeehouses, squeeze oranges, and drink the health of Limp?