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lame
noun
a naive, conventional, law-abiding person US, 1960- The bar was filling with the lames and fools of the Saturday-workday, loud and boisterous, living it up and acting like people. — Clarence Cooper Jr, The Scene, p. 40, 1960
- Pickin’ pockets, why that’s a hustle for a lame. — Bruce Jackson, Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me, p. 66, 1964
- She dug this lame, some cat who worked in a grocery store. — Claude Brown, Manchild in the Promised Land, p. 180, 1965
- [S]ome good Pump House souls are busted, but that is The Life, the world divided into surfer heads and surfer lames[.] — Tom Wolfe, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, p. 321, 1968
- He didn’t like it that his cronies and the small-time lames were sniggering behind his back. — Nathan Heard, Howard Street, p. 89, 1968
- — Eldridge Cleaver, Soul on Ice, p. 4, 1968
- A whole lotta lames’ll / fall victim to the game. — Lightnin’ Rod, Hustlers Convention, p. 24, 1973
- Then some lame was puffing on a joint one night, got next to a kitty and said she had to take a poke. — Edwin Torres, Carlito’s Way, p. 26, 1975
- If we didn’t need the lame, he wouldn’t be up there now. — Jack W. Thomas, Heavy Number, p. 56, 1976
- I’ve seen excited suckers in my time, but that lame has remained without peer in my memory. — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), Airtight Willie and Me, p. 23, 1979
- I don’t know. He was a lame, that’s all. — Apocalypse Now, 1979
- At the bottom of Jump-Offs social ladder are the teens and others who make money through legitimate work–variously described as “lames,” “squares” and “punks.” — Terry Williams, The Cocaine Kids, p. 103, 1989
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