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limbo(2)(dictionary)
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[Sense: 1; Date: 1300-1400; Language: Medieval Latin; Origin: Latin limbus 'border']
[Sense: 2; Date: 1900-2000; Origin: LIMBER2]
[singular, U] a situation in which nothing happens or changes for a long period of time, and it is difficult to make decisions or know what to do, often because you are waiting for something else to happen first
be in limbo
::I'm in limbo now until I know whether I've got the job.
limbo of
::the limbo of his eight years in jail
the limbo
a West Indian dance in which the dancer leans backwards and goes under a stick that is lowered gradually