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crippler

crippler noun: a person who, or thing which cripples.

Noun

crippler (plural cripplers)

  1. A person who, or thing which cripples.
  2. A corrugated board used to grain leather.
  3. A sighting of an extraordinarily rare bird, such that it almost has an paralysing effect on the birder.
    • Blue-headed Wagtails and migrant Warblers were nice but hardly ‘cripplers’.1983, Bill Oddie, Gone Birding, London: Methuen, page 113

Forms of crippler

pluralcripplers

Origin of crippler

From cripple + -er.

Questions about crippler

What does crippler mean?
Crippler means a person who, or thing which cripples.
What part of speech is crippler?
Crippler is a noun.
What is the plural of crippler?
The plural of crippler is cripplers.

Words near crippler in the dictionary

  1. crippledom
  2. cripplement
  3. cripplements
  4. crippleness
  5. cripplepunk
  6. crippler
  7. cripplers
  8. cripples
  9. cripplesome
  10. crippleware
  11. crippling

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