Hobble

Word HOBBLE
Character 6
Hyphenation hob ble
Pronunciations /ˈhɒbəl/

Definitions and meanings of "Hobble"

What do we mean by hobble?

To walk or move along haltingly or with difficulty; limp. intransitive verb

To put a device around the legs of (a horse, for example) so as to hamper but not prevent movement. intransitive verb

To cause to limp. intransitive verb

To hamper the action or progress of; impede. intransitive verb

A hobbling walk or gait. noun

A device, such as a rope or strap, used to hobble an animal. noun

An unequal, halting gait; a limp; an awkward step. noun

Difficulty; perplexity; scrape. noun

Anything used to hamper the feet of an animal, especially a rope tied to the fore legs of a horse to insure its being caught when wanted; a clog; a fetter. noun

To go with a hop or hitch; walk with a hitch; go on crutches; go lamely; limp.

To dance.

To move roughly or irregularly, as verse.

To tie the legs of together so as to impede or prevent free motion; clog; hopple.

To perplex; embarrass.

An unequal gait; a limp; a halt. noun

Same as Hopple. noun

Difficulty; perplexity; embarrassment. noun

To walk lame, bearing chiefly on one leg; to walk with a hitch or hop, or with crutches. intransitive verb

To move roughly or irregularly; -- said of style in writing. intransitive verb

To fetter by tying the legs; to hopple; to clog. transitive verb

(chiefly in the plural) One of the short straps tied between the legs of unfenced horses, allowing them to wander short distances but preventing them from running off.

An unsteady, off-balance step.

A difficult situation; a scrape.

An odd job; a piece of casual work.

When a 2 by 4 is placed between a moronic douche bags ankles, and then a sledgehammer (in your case one wrapped in barbwire) is used to hit, and crush the bond between your foot and ankle so that you can never walk again and are caused extreme agony. For a better depiction see the movie Misery with Kathy Bates. Urban Dictionary

To walk (slowly) with a limp, gimp, or other physical problem. Urban Dictionary

To create a disadvantage for an opponent in a competition. Urban Dictionary

A group of elderly people. Urban Dictionary

1) to take a baseball bat to someboyd's knees Urban Dictionary

To act skanky in an efficient manner. Lyrics from Bobblehead, by D4L Urban Dictionary

The act of tying someone to a bed and putting a block of wood in between their ankles, then hitting their foot with a sledgehammer to break their ankles making sure they can't escape Urban Dictionary

A series of jerky wobbly moves executed by an uncoordinated person when they attempt to play Dance Dance Revolution. Urban Dictionary

The act of removing a single foot from a person in order to force them to perform a task without any chance of running away. Urban Dictionary

1. Candie. 2. One who is a huge slute. 3. One who falls down and injures herself in an idiotic way. 4. One who smells of cad. Urban Dictionary

Synonyms and Antonyms for Hobble

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The word "hobble" in example sentences

Numps has sent for me to see poor little Greek and Latin hobble to the altar, but, 'tis a million to one, if our noble baronet does not whisk you there before her. ❋ Unknown (1796)

Ironically (or not), with the rising militancy of suffragists, skirts began to narrow until they became the barreled, banded style known as the hobble skirt. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Let not my length and my breadth nor yet my bulk delude thee, with respect to the son of Adam; for he, of the excess of his guile and his cunning, fashions for me a thing called a hobble and hobbles my four legs with ropes of palm-fibres, bound with felt, and makes me fast by the head to a high picket, so that I remain standing and can neither sit nor lie down, being tied up. ❋ Anonymous (1879)

` ` Normally, when that type of thing happens, it's painful at first, you kind of hobble off and then it goes away, '' Redick said. ❋ Unknown (2005)

So when the prosecutor called him to the witness stand, it took what seemed like forever for him to kind of hobble up to the stand. ❋ Unknown (2007)

At several points in the decision, the judge notes that Williams and MacDonald considered Henley's work to have been a "hobble", local slang for a small, inconsequential job. ❋ Ed Hollett (2006)

But he watched the small figure, that did after all "hobble" a little all the way down the room as the summoned housekeeper led the way. ❋ Emily Calvin Blake (N/A)

In excursions of this kind it is customary to "hobble" the horses; that is, to tie their fore-legs together, so that they cannot run either fast or far, but are free enough to amble about with a clumsy sort of hop in search of food. ❋ Unknown (1859)

The judges all hated Mila's dress, which was so tight and stiff that her model had to "hobble" down the runway. ❋ Unknown (2010)

"hobble" the PC multiplayer version of MW2 by not providing for dedicated servers. ❋ Unknown (2009)

But when we do so, we must not hobble ourselves by hating them. ❋ Glenn Beck (2011)

That's because there's no need to give Gingrich equal treatment in order to portray him as a loudmouthed irritant who's trying to hobble Romney's joyless pursuit of victory. ❋ Dan Kennedy (2012)

And of course Mayor Michael Bloomberg's team worked to hobble them further. ❋ David Tereshchuk (2011)

The players' dealings with Anderson date back a decade or more, which legal experts said could further hobble prosecutors already set back by the exclusion of the tests tied to Anderson. ❋ AP (2011)

LightSquared executives have acknowledged that their proposed network could hobble GPS signals, however they say that there are technical fixes that can solve the problem. ❋ Amy Schatz (2011)

WASHINGTON—A federal government advisory board said mobile broadband start-up LightSquared's proposed network could hobble some GPS signals in space, not just equipment on the ground. ❋ Amy Schatz (2011)

I'm halfway tempted, and I'm almost too old to hobble. ❋ Unknown (2009)

One time this bitch tried to steal my man so I took her [out back] and hobbled her. Now [crippy] can't [get play]. ❋ BadBlondie (2007)

[That bitch] [hobbles] all over [the hood]. ❋ Ol Hobble-along (2009)

He knew the only way he'd win was to hobble her [racer] [with sugar] in the [petrol] tank. ❋ JSPoultry (2019)

A hobble just [walked] into the [souvenir] [spoon] store. ❋ Jason Bee (2016)

That [shithead] fucked up my [drug deal], [imma] hobble him. ❋ Bunny Xu (2007)

A [bobble] aint bad.... a [bobble's] something good..... a bobble makes you hobble [when you walking] through the hood.... A bobble make you tell yo niggas' they misunderstood.... cause everything she do for you is oh so very good! ❋ Nahoje Wayne (2006)

Hobbling, [Misery] ❋ Nix0n001 (2011)

You see Nick and how [uncoordinated] he is at [DDR]? He's doing The Hobble, and [very well], too! ❋ That One Dinosaur Guy (2011)

The prisoners in charge of the [roadside] cleaning detail often attempted to escape. To combat this [the warden] resorted to [hobbling] them. ❋ CBRadi0 (2018)

Hobbles is a [hosebeast]. [Wow], that Hobbles is a [slute]. ❋ Sanderson (2005)

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