Usually means: Impaired or ineffective due to injury.
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General (31 matching dictionaries)
  1. lame, the lame: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. lame: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. lame, lame: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. lame: Collins English Dictionary
  5. lame: Vocabulary.com
  6. Lame, l'ame, lame: Wordnik
  7. lame: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. lame: Wiktionary
  9. lame: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. lame: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. lame: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. lame: Dictionary.com
  13. lame (adj.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. lame: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. LAME, Lame (album), Lame (armor), Lame (kitchen tool), Lame (song), Lame: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Lame: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. lame: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. lame: Rhymezone
  19. lame, lame (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. lame: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. LAME: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. lame: Free Dictionary
  23. lame: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. lame: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  25. lame: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Jazz Humor (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lame: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lame: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. lame: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. LAME: Acronym Finder
  3. lame: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Bryological (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. lame, lame: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. lame: ESL Slang page
  3. the lame: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Farrier & Hoofcare (No longer online)
  2. Textile (No longer online)

(Note: See lamed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Unable to walk properly because of a problem with one's feet or legs.
adjective:  Moving with pain or difficulty on account of injury, defect or temporary obstruction of a function.
adjective:  (by extension) Hobbling; limping; inefficient; imperfect.
adjective:  (colloquial) Unconvincing or unbelievable.
adjective:  (colloquial) Synonym of uncool, uninteresting, or unfunny.
verb:  (transitive) To cause (a person or animal) to become lame.
noun:  (prison slang) A stupid or undesirable person.
noun:  A lamina; a thin layer or plate of material, as in certain kinds of armor.
noun:  (in the plural) A set of joined overlapping metal plates.
noun:  Kitchen tool for scoring bread dough before baking.

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