Definitions

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  • noun disability of walking due to crippling of the legs or feet

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Examples

  • My various types of gimpiness keep me from working a traditional day job.

    Decision s00j 2009

  • He says a veterinarian was concerned about apparent gimpiness on the horse's right front leg and was told the horse was nothing more than a "short-term proposition."

    Groundswell builds for 'America's horse' 2009

  • Teresa and I bring up the rear of the eight-person group -- I from gimpiness, she from sympathy.

    Canyoneering Heaven 2008

  • I was the only one underage but sometimes gimpiness freaks servers out so much you don't get carded.

    Archive 2007-01-01 Kay Olson 2007

  • Yesterday's list of glorious gimpiness failed to mention my fabulous elbows, one of which I lean on to type.

    Archive 2007-01-01 Kay Olson 2007

  • Yesterday's list of glorious gimpiness failed to mention my fabulous elbows, one of which I lean on to type.

    Neglect Kay Olson 2007

  • I was the only one underage but sometimes gimpiness freaks servers out so much you don't get carded.

    Flying rodents of unusual size Kay Olson 2007

  • Then he would return to us, with an added gimpiness in his elderly legs, an increased expansion of the chest inside his tight and shiny frock coat, and a fresh freight of richness on his breath, to report another deserved promotion.

    Europe Revised 1910

  • Digger's arthritis and gimpiness started when he was 7, and Sunny is 8, and just GAH.

    Rachel Lucas 2009

  • I can't see myself as an aging hipster anymore with the stick and my gimpiness -- though I know that's indeed what I am.

    Smokey Mountain Breakdown 2008

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