cripple: Meaning and Definition of

crip•ple

1. a mental cripple.
1. a person or animal that is partially or totally unable to use one or more limbs; a lame or disabled person or animal.
2. a person who is disabled or impaired in any way:a mental cripple.
2. anything that is impaired or flawed.
3. a wounded animal, esp. one shot by a hunter.
4. any structural member shorter than usual, as a stud beneath a window sill.
5. a swampy, densely overgrown tract of land.

1. to make a cripple of; lame.
2. to disable; impair; weaken.

1. jack (def. 29).