limp
noun/lɪmp/
/lɪmp/
[usually singular]- a way of walking in which one leg is used less or in a different way because it is injured or stiff
- to walk with a slight/pronounced limp
- The accident had left him with a slight limp.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- noticeable
- pronounced
- slight
- …
- have
- walk with
- give somebody
- …
Word Originnoun late Middle English (in the sense ‘fall short of’): related to obsolete limphalt ‘lame’, and probably of Germanic origin.Definitions on the go
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