Associations to the word «Handicapped»

Wiktionary

HANDICAPPED, verb. Simple past tense and past participle of handicap
HANDICAPPED, adjective. Having a handicap.
HANDICAPPED, adjective. (derogatory) Limited by an impediment of some kind.
HANDICAPPED, noun. (India) A disabled person.
HANDICAPPED PERMIT, noun. A permit allowing handicapped people to park in handicapped spaces.
HANDICAPPED SIGN, noun. A sign indicating that a certain parking space is a handicapped space and that any nonhandicapped person parking there will have to pay a big fine.
HANDICAPPED SPACE, noun. A parking space reserved for handicapped people.

Dictionary definition

HANDICAPPED, noun. People collectively who are crippled or otherwise physically handicapped; "technology to help the elderly and the disabled".
HANDICAPPED, adjective. Incapable of functioning as a consequence of injury or illness.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats