HOBBLE meaning: Impair movement, typically by injury

We found 33 dictionaries that define the word hobble:

General (27 matching dictionaries)

hobble: Merriam-Webster
hobble: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
hobble: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
hobble: Collins English Dictionary
hobble: Vocabulary.com
Hobble, hobble: Wordnik
hobble: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
hobble: Wiktionary
hobble: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
hobble: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
hobble: Infoplease Dictionary
hobble: Dictionary.com
hobble: Online Etymology Dictionary
hobble: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Hobble (device), Hobble: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Hobble: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
hobble: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
hobble: Rhymezone
hobble: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
hobble: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
HOBBLE: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
hobble: FreeDictionary.org
hobble: Mnemonic Dictionary
hobble: TheFreeDictionary.com
hobble: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)

hobble: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

hobble: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)

hobble: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
hobble: Medical dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)

hobble, hobble: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
hobble: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ noun:  (chiefly in the plural) One of the short straps tied between the legs of unfenced horses, allowing them to wander short distances but preventing them from running off.
▸ noun:  An unsteady, off-balance step.
▸ noun:  (archaic, informal) A difficult situation; a scrape.
▸ noun:  (dialect, UK and Newfoundland) An odd job; a piece of casual work.
▸ verb:  To fetter by tying the legs; to restrict (a horse) with hobbles.
▸ verb:  To walk lame, or unevenly.
▸ verb:  (figurative) To move roughly or irregularly.
▸ verb:  To perplex; to embarrass.

Similar:

hitch, fetter, limp, hobble skirt, spancel, shackle bolt, turnback, shackle, hamper, slang, more...

Opposite:

stride, saunter, march, stroll, walk

Types:

crutch, cane, walker, walker boot, walker shoe, more...

Phrases:

hobble skirt, hobble skirts, dog hobble, crossed hobble, witch hobble, more...

Adjectives:

old, painful, slow, such, pretty, awkward, sad, slight, own, long, strange

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