Cripple

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Cripple is a dated term for a disabled person, 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 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.