What's the difference between gimpy and limping?

Gimpy


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Updated at 5.31am GMT 4.04am GMT Red Sox 4 - Cardinals 4, bottom of 9th Craig rips the first pitch he sees from Uehara into the corner - Molina moves to third base and the gimpy Craig has a double!
  • (2) 9.48pm BST Dodgers news Los Angeles announced that Andre Ethier will be on the postseason roster - he'll be playing the role of gimpy pinch hitter like another certain ex-Dodger I know... Ethier needs to work in his limp, it has to be just right.
  • (3) Tweet: @lengeldavid Email: david.lengel.freelance@guardiannews.com 1.35am GMT Red Sox 1 - Cardinals 1, bottom of 5th Craig bounces to Pedroia and the Sox second baseman can jog around the field three times before throwing to get the gimpy Cards first baseman.
  • (4) The biggest news is, of course, Allen Craig and his gimpy foot in at first.
  • (5) He was now in the protective custody of men and women, who, with straight faces, introduced themselves by the titles of their blogs: "Hi, I'm Gimpy."

Limping


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Limp

Example Sentences:

  • (1) As it was, Labour limped in seven points and nearly two million votes behind the Conservatives because older cohorts of the electorate leant heavily to the Tories and grandpa and grandma turned up at the polling stations in the largest numbers.
  • (2) Everton ended with 10 men after Seamus Coleman limped off with all three substitutes deployed but there was no late flourish from a visiting team who, with Fernando replacing Kevin De Bruyne after the Irish defender’s departure, appeared content to settle for 1-2.
  • (3) He limped around in the beginning but the injury worsened.
  • (4) An actor dressed like one of the polar bears that figure in Coke ads limped up, wearing a prosthesis on one paw, a dialysis bag and tubing.
  • (5) Despite the 2 operations and extensive medical treatment with vasodilators, anticoagulants, and other medication, the pain and limp persisted and a cutaneous necrosis of the 1st and 5th left toes was observed.
  • (6) Armchair Paralympian (armchayer-parra-limp-iain) noun .
  • (7) An obese man with a withered leg limps down Tollcross Road, eating pizza from a cardboard box.
  • (8) The Bruins, on the other hand, limped into the playoffs, with everyone wondering where their firepower had gone.
  • (9) More here: UK regulator urges banks to speed up swaps mis-selling compensation 8.40am GMT More reaction to the decision to send riot police to evict people from the offices of Greece's former state broadcaster this morning , starting with journalist Nick Malkoutzis: Nick Malkoutzis (@NickMalkoutzis) 5 mths after flicking switch on public broadcaster ERT, gov't tries to settle issue by sending riot police to remove remaining staff #Greece November 7, 2013 Nick Malkoutzis (@NickMalkoutzis) While #ERT will be off air for good after police intervention, the stain of how its closure has been handled won't wash away easily #Greece November 7, 2013 Lady Mondegreen (@amaenad) Like a mean stupid dog appeasing a cruel master, the Greek government wants to lay ERT's limp body at the troika's feet.
  • (10) The girl's mother, who I learned later, had recently arrived in Danané with her daughter after escaping the fighting in Abidjan, lifted the limp body and carried it out of the house to where we were parked.
  • (11) Their composure was shattered from the moment Alex McCarthy gifted the visitors an equaliser, all authority wrested away in the blink of an eye and Liverpool , suddenly focused where previously they had been limp and ineffective, the more persuasive threat in what time that remained.
  • (12) This team may have limped to the 50-point mark with their draw against the champions, but they have been pining for the end of this campaign for months.
  • (13) "It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black, the cobblestreets silent and the hunched, courters'-and-rabbits' wood limping invisible down to the sloeblack, slow, black, crowblack, fishingboatbobbing sea."
  • (14) If that happened, he could get up and limp across the street to the safety of the Indymedia centre, where he had spent the past three days filing reports on the G8 summit and on its violent policing.
  • (15) To determine whether limping is associated with decreased bone mineralization, the trabecular and integral bone densities (BDs) of 18 Caucasian children exhibiting computed tomographic evidence of tarsal coalition (14 boys, 4 girls, aged 9 years, 5 months to 16 years, 3 months) were compared with those of an age- and sex-matched control group.
  • (16) By then Wenger's frown lines had deepened in the wake of some heavy limping on Mikel Arteta's part.
  • (17) Today, he suffers from partial paralysis on the left side of his body, and has a limp and limited use his left arm.
  • (18) An analysis of the incidence and significance of leg shortening, limping, and abductor lurch is presented and some observations made on trochanteric overgrowth and the effect of surgery on the rate of femoral head reconstitution.
  • (19) In cultured cells, the general immunostaining patterns observed in vivo were maintained during the duration of the primary cultures for all five LIMPs.
  • (20) For Manchester City, Yaya Toure will return to their starting line-up, having been suspended for their match against Bayern Munich, but Micah Richards will miss today's game after limping off against Bayern with a hamstring injury.

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