lame
Unable to walk properly because of a problem with one's feet or legs.
Adjective 4 meanings
Unable to walk properly because of a problem with one's feet or legs.
“With the years, this horse has little by little gone lame.”
Hobbling; limping; inefficient; imperfect.
Unconvincing or unbelievable.
“He had a really lame excuse for missing the birthday party.”
Uncool, uninteresting, or unfunny.
“He kept telling these extremely lame jokes all night.”
Verb 1 meaning
To cause (a person or animal) to become lame.
Noun 3 meanings
A thin layer or plate of material, as in certain kinds of armor.
A set of joined overlapping metal plates.
A kitchen tool for scoring bread dough before baking.
Etymology
From Middle English lame, from Old English lama (“lame”), from Proto-West Germanic *lam, from Proto-Germanic *lamaz (“lame”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃lemH- (“to tire; to break”).
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LAME at a glance
LAME has 4 letters and scores 6 points in Scrabble (L 1 + A 1 + M 3 + E 1) and 8 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #7,588 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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