ли́мбо — meaning in English
limbo
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English meaning
- limbo noun A state of being stuck between two situations, with no clear resolution or progress.
Senses
ли́мбо is used for these senses in English:
- limbo (dances, also, attributively) A competitive dance originating from Trinidad and Tobago in which dancers take turns to cross under a horizontal bar while bending backwards. The bar is lowered with each round, and the competition is won by the dancer who passes under the bar in the lowest position without dislodging it or falling down.
limbo — full definition
- noun A state of being stuck between two situations, with no clear resolution or progress.
- noun In some Christian traditions, an in-between afterlife state for souls who are neither in heaven nor hell.
- noun A dance in which participants bend backward to pass beneath a bar that is progressively lowered.