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lameness

Variant of lame

adjective

  1. crippled; disabled; esp., having an injured leg or foot that makes one limp
  2. stiff and very painful: a lame back
  3. poor, weak, unconvincing, ineffectual, etc.: a lame excuse

transitive verb lamed, laming

to make lame

noun

Slang a person who is conventional, conservative, old-fashioned, etc.; square

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