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  • noun Plural form of limper.

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Examples

  • It cost me dearly when I picked up 6-9c in the SB a hand I will almost always throw away — but with several limpers, I was getting huge odds so it was almost a mandatory call and saw the all-club flop for cheap.

    WIL WHEATON dot NET: 1.5: July 2005 Archives 2005

  • It went like this: Kings in middle position, with two limpers.

    WIL WHEATON dot NET: 1.5: August 2005 Archives 2005

  • Somehow both limpers forgot to give way to their weakness, and from that minute on the very thought of the great crowd that would send up a tremendous cheer when the boys in khaki came in sight, was enough to make them walk as though they did not know such a thing as getting tired.

    Boy Scouts on a Long Hike Or, To the Rescue in the Black Water Swamps Archibald Lee Fletcher

  • The lame gods, the enslaved gods, the toiling limpers moaning for the woman.

    Fantasia of the Unconscious 1907

  • To your graves -- back -- back to the hills old limpers!

    Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman 1855

  • Sometimes the air was harsh and bleak; the ridged and mottled sky looked scourged, or cramping fogs set in from sea, for leagues around, ferreting out each rheumatic human bone, and racking it; the sciatic limpers shivered; their aguish rags sponged up the mists.

    Israel Potter Herman Melville 1855

  • Second hand at a new table I got deal J,10 in late position with a couple limpers before me I also limped along with the two blinds.

    BC Bloggers dbcooper 2010

  • There had to be some weakness among the limpers, but Arieh only called.

    Philly.com - Latest Videos 2010

  • So six limpers took a flop of 7-9-10, two spades, giving Arieh top pair and the nut-flush draw.

    Philly.com - Latest Videos 2010

  • With 5 limpers to me and blinds at 100/200 I bumped it to 1400 and everybody folded.

    Randsco dbcooper 2010

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