somewhere between here and there;
not quite in Heaven but not in Hell either;
Carribean dance where people bend backwards to go under a stick held in the air and set to music
In Dante's Inferno, Limbo is the first circle of hell. Limbo is the home of the dead pagans that were around before Jesus Christ and Christianity. The Pagans are kept here, unharmed, where they live for eternity. They are not allowed into heaven because they do not know God's love. Unbabtized and aborted babies are also sent here when they die.
In games, primarily in roleplaying, limbo refers to the state a character is in while awaiting an action of another character.
The first character can not act without knowing the second his action. When the second player is gone for a long time, it forces the first player to wait, leaving his character in "limbo", stuck in a timelessvoid.
the place where a man goes in the weeks following unprotected sex with a woman to be judged whether or not he's been condemned to a life of parenthood.
Caribbean-derived dance in which participants bend over backwards to pass under a stick or pole held by other dancers that is sequentially lowered with each pass.
"The limbo was invented by a Jew at a pay toilet."
"Protocols of the Elders of Zion for Dummies" (Magus Publications, 2004)
By Jo Ann
Limbo
A West Indian dance in which the dancers keep bending over backward and passing under a pole that is lowered slightly each time.
