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  • verb Present participle of lame.

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Examples

  • I'm kind of laming out here picking a lot of home teams, but that's the way it is.

    CNN Transcript Jan 7, 2005 2005

  • Bockem had hit the creature in its right rear leg, the bullet shattering its thigh bones with an explosive spray of blood, instantly laming it.

    CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: Skin Deep Jerome Preisler 2010

  • There are hazards, sure, an errant five-inch spike heel on your instep - or, as I admit to, the temporary laming of a fellow dancer with an inadvertent kick to his ankles, but these are just

    Why I Love To Dance Mexican Style 2008

  • There are hazards, sure, an errant five-inch spike heel on your instep - or, as I admit to, the temporary laming of a fellow dancer with an inadvertent kick to his ankles, but these are just

    Why I Love To Dance Mexican Style 2008

  • Who would even imagine that simply scaling down and laming up a formula that works well in one country is going to work in another, different one?

    Archive 2009-02-01 2009

  • Who would even imagine that simply scaling down and laming up a formula that works well in one country is going to work in another, different one?

    Not Much Surprise About BookExpo Canada’s Demise 2009

  • I'll know that the Spider-mythos is poorer for the loss of the marriage and the laming of Peter as any kind of adult, but I'm not the core audience.

    Continuity Used to Matter at Marvel | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2008

  • And the fires — and the smoke — and the roads made with bits of crockery, as if all the plates and dishes in the civilised world had been Macadamised, expressly for the laming of all the horses?

    Reprinted Pieces 2007

  • So if victim-laming does ncrease the incidence of rape in our society, it makes sense that social stigma against prostitution would increase the rape of prostitutes.

    Link Farm and Open Thread #7 2006

  • I must confess that I may actually end up laming up the place this year.

    NaDruWriNi 2005

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  • "Topic is 'www.worldch.at | speak english | NO spam (urls etc) | no laming | oh noes it's monday coming'"

    - IRCnet chatroom: #worldchat, 11 July 2008.

    August 11, 2008