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- noun Plural form of
limper .
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Examples
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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.
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It went like this: Kings in middle position, with two limpers.
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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
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The lame gods, the enslaved gods, the toiling limpers moaning for the woman.
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To your graves -- back -- back to the hills old limpers!
Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman 1855
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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
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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
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There had to be some weakness among the limpers, but Arieh only called.
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So six limpers took a flop of 7-9-10, two spades, giving Arieh top pair and the nut-flush draw.
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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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