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'''Cripple''' is a person or animal with a [[disability]], particularly one who is unable to walk due to an injury or illness. The word was recorded as early as [[950]] [[AD]], and generally came to be regarded as [[pejorative]] when used for people, in the [[United States]], [[United Kingdom|Britain]] and [[Canada]] during the [[1960s]]. In other English-speaking countries, the term is still widely used without pejorative connotations. |
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Revision as of 13:16, 21 June 2007
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Cripple is a person or animal with a disability, particularly one who is unable to walk due to an injury or illness. The word was recorded as early as 950 AD, and generally came to be regarded as pejorative when used for people, in the United States, Britain and Canada during the 1960s. In other English-speaking countries, the term is still widely used without pejorative connotations.
Cripple may also refer to:
In society:
- Crips, a modern street gang started in Los Angeles.
In geography:
- Cripple Creek, a small town in Colorado.
In software:
- Crippleware, a type of shareware that lacks full functionality.
In mass media:
- Cripple Crow, an album by Devendra Banhart.
- Cripple Fight, an episode of South Park.
- Crippled Lucifer, an album by Burning Witch.
- The Crippled Masters, a kung-fu film.
- Cripple Need Cane, a rock band from Los Angeles.
- The Cripple of Inishmaan, an Irish play.
- Hooky the Cripple, a novel by Chopper Read.
- Cripple Clarence Lofton, a blues artist.