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A cripple is a goods wagon or a passenger coach which although safe to run on the railway, is not fit for use and requires a repair before it can be used in service. This could be a coal wagon with a hole in the floor (which would allow coal to fall out of the wagon), or a passenger coach with a broken window.
Crip, slang for cripple, is a term in the process of being reclaimed by disabled people. [1] [2] Wright State University suggests that the current community definition of crip includes people who experience any form of disability, such as one or more impairments with physical, mental, learning, and sensory, [1] though the term primarily targets physical and mobility impairment.
Cripple "A person with a physical or mobility impairment". Its shortened form ("crip") has been reclaimed by some people with disabilities as a positive identity. [6] [7] [17] [24] Confined to a wheelchair: Implies helplessness, and that someone is to be pitied. [7]
A cripple is a person or animal with a physical disability; the term is now pejorative when referring to a person. Cripple may also refer to:
Cripple i.e. One who walks with a limp; Gangster Dion O'Bannion was called gimpy due to his noticeable limp [189] gimlet Chronic bore [147] gin mill Seller of hard liquor; Cheap speakeasy [17] gink Man or fellow [189] give the air Break a date [147] give the knee Dance cheek-to-cheek and Toe-to-Toe [147] glad rags
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The English language, along with other European ones, adopted the word and used it as similar meaning, slow and delayed. In English, the word "to decelerate " would become a more common term than "to retard", while in others like French [ 9 ] or Catalan, [ 10 ] retard is still in common usage to mean 'delay' ( tard ).
Crip (disability term), reclaimed slang for cripple; Crip theory, a branch of disability studies; CRIP (Clave de Registro e Identidad Personal), a registration and identification code used in Mexico; Crips, a street gang in Los Angeles; Crank Reference index Position (CRiP), an important measurement taken by crankshaft position sensors