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stove up adjective injured, ill or exhausted US, 1901- If I weren’t so stove up and ailin’ critical, I’d bung yo head bigger ’n a Georgia watermelon ’bout you and the tramp. — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), Doom Fox, p. 123, 1978
- I been feelin’ a little stove up all week, but if I can walk, I can work. — Ken Weaver, Texas Crude, p. 129, 1984
- I don’t want any parts of surveillance work. Other than following some stove-up cripple walks with a cane. — Elmore Leonard, Glitz, p. 320, 1985
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