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noun, plural -bos.

(often initial capital letter) Roman Catholic Theology. a region on the border of hell or heaven, serving as the abode after death of unbaptized infants (limbo of infants) and of the righteous who died before the coming of Christ (limbo of the fathers or limbo of the patriarchs).

a place or state of oblivion to which persons or things are regarded as being relegated when cast aside, forgotten, past, or out of date: My youthful hopes are in the limbo of lost dreams.

an intermediate, transitional, or midway state or place.

a place or state of imprisonment or confinement.

Origin:
1300–50; Middle English, from Medieval Latin phrase in limbō on hell's border (Latin: on the edge), equivalent to in on + limbō, ablative of limbus edge, border (L), place bordering on hell (ML); see limbus¹

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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

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Example Sentences

Academia has become a limbo for fools and masochists.

It symbolises a legal limbo into which no law-abiding society should ever willingly stray.

All the while, millions of forest residents are hanging in limbo.

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Academia has become a limbo for fools and masochists.

It symbolises a legal limbo into which no law-abiding society should ever willingly stray.

All the while, millions of forest residents are hanging in limbo.

For now, the tiny tyrant sits in paleontological limbo.

Jonathan decided to reclaim his father's papers from print limbo and make them freely available online.

But works created during the four decades in between live in limbo.

On the other hand, that leaves the country in a nervous state of limbo for nearly three months.

Guantanamo might not rate as a tourist spot, but it's proved the ideal place for keeping the detainees in legal limbo.

Many other restored films languish in a limbo of restricted access.

However, the federal government is refusing to commit to long-term support, leaving the university's future in limbo.

Promised reforms to bank regulation, meant to curb the excess before it starts all over again, are in limbo.

Others stay in limbo because of lawsuits filed by conservationists.

The junta eventually fell and, following elections last year, the minerals deal is now in limbo.

The ranks of failed asylum-seekers in limbo are swelling.

The church has run into financial problems that have left the construction project in limbo.

McDonald's case is in limbo until a final review by the government determines if her debt can be wiped off the books.

Periods of limbo do not make for stirring communiqués.

Still, uncertainty looms because of volatile prices and regulatory limbo.

The opinion does leaves the privacy issue in a legal limbo of sorts.

Such books are effectively in digital limbo because their owners cannot be found to ask permission for digital use.

The words it rejects have been forced to remain in lexigraphical limbo until they are forgotten but now is the time to save them.

Therefore, you have no security and you are in complete limbo.

But at the moment, agriculture has been caught in limbo.

Of the more than half-dozen film projects currently in the works, some are inching forward while others are caught in limbo.

Today work has yet to begin and the plan is still in limbo.

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noun, plural -bos.

a dance from the West Indies, originally for men only, in which the dancer bends backward from the knees and moves with a shuffling step under a horizontal bar that is lowered after each successive pass.

Origin:
1955–60; compare Jamaican English limba to bend, easily bending; see limber¹

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World English Dictionary

limbo¹ (ˈlɪmbəʊ)

—n , pl -bos
1.	(often capital) Christianity the supposed abode of infants dying without baptism and the just who died before Christ
2.	an imaginary place for lost, forgotten, or unwanted persons or things
3.	an unknown intermediate place or condition between two extremes: in limbo
4.	a prison or confinement

[C14: from Medieval Latin in limbo on the border (of hell)]

limbo² (ˈlɪmbəʊ)

—n , pl -bos
	a Caribbean dance in which dancers pass, while leaning backwards, under a bar

[C20: origin uncertain]

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Word Origin & History

limbo

"region supposed to exist on the border of Hell" reserved for pre-Christian saints (Limbus patrum) and unbaptized infants (Limbus infantum);" c.1300, from L. (in) limbo "(on) the edge," abl. of limbus "edge, border" (see limb (2)). Figurative sense of "condition of neglect or oblivion" is from 1642.

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limbo

dance in which the dancer bends backward and passes under a bar, 1956, of W.Indian origin, probably an alteration of limber.

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American Heritage

Cultural Dictionary

limbo definition

In the teaching of the Roman Catholic Church regarding the afterlife, the condition of innocent persons who die without benefit of baptism; those in limbo do not suffer damnation, but they do not enjoy the presence of God. Limbo means “a bordering place.”

Note: Figuratively, “limbo” is a state of nonresolution or uncertainty: “Until he receives notice of his new posting, he'll be in limbo.”

Slang Dictionary

lumbo definition

[ˈləmbo] and [ˈlɪmbo]
and limbo

n.
Colombian marijuana. (Drugs. See also lum(s).) : He showed up with a bag of lumbo.

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Idioms & Phrases

limbo

see in limbo.