A person or thing that is helpless, inefficient, or disabled.
An elected official who has lost the recent election or is not eligible for reelection and is marking time until leaving office.
A foolish, annoying or incompetent person.
A toy consisting of a spheroidal or cylindrical spindle having a circular groove in which string is wound; it is used by holding the string in the fingers and reeling the spindle up and down by movements of the wrist.
A cloth rosette formed by gathering the outside edge of a circle of fabric in toward the centre using a running stitch.
Someone who vacillates.
A dogfighting maneuver involving the attacker temporarily exchanging altitude for airspeed, or vice versa, in order to rapidly catch up with the defender or to prevent an overshoot.
A volatile market that moves up and down.
To vacillate; to move up and down.