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English
Adjective
lumbered (comparative more lumbered, superlative most lumbered)
- (slang) Trapped, encumbered.
1995, Nick Hornby, High Fidelity, London: Victor Gollancz, →ISBN, page 22:‘And you're going to marry her, are you? Or have you knocked her up?’
‘No. Neither.’
‘So you’re just going out? You’re not lumbered?’
- (UK, slang, obsolete) In prison.
- 1859, George William MacArthur Reynolds, The Mysteries of London (volume 2, page 303)
- But I knew that he was married only a week ago, and never dreamt that he would leave his pretty wife to poke his nose into Banks's crib. What an infernal oversight on my part! And now — here I am, regularly lumbered; and all the swag arising from Kate Wilmot's business is in the hands of that canting sneak Banks! Damnation to Richard Markham! I shall swing for this if I don't take precious good care.
Verb
lumbered
- simple past and past participle of lumber
References
- (in prison): John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary
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