Lame duck
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Lame duck can refer to:
- Lame duck (politics)Lame duck (politics)A lame duck is an elected official who is approaching the end of his or her tenure, and especially an official whose successor has already been elected.-Description:The status can be due to*having lost a re-election bid...
, an elected official who is approaching the end of his or her tenure, and especially an official whose successor has already been elected. - Lame duck session (United States)Lame duck session (United States)A "lame duck" session of Congress in the United States occurs whenever one Congress meets after its successor is elected, but before the successor's term begins. The expression is now used not only for a special session called after a sine die adjournment, but also for any portion of a regular...
, an interval of legislative inactivity -- not always because members are lame ducks - Lame duck (game design)Lame duck (game design)A lame duck, in the context of a game, is a player who remains in the game but has no chance of winning. It must be literally impossible— not merely highly improbable — for a player to win for it to constitute a lame-duck scenario...
, a player in a game who cannot win, yet remains in the game. - Lame duck (tango)Lame duck (tango)thumb|The lame duckThe lame duck is a dance move in tango.The dancers slightly separate, clasp hands, and face forward. The man steps forward with his right foot and the lady with her left, dipping with their right knee as they take the next step. The steps are repeated....
, a position in tango - Lame Ducks (TV series)Lame Ducks (TV series)Lame Ducks is a British television sitcom made by the BBC in 1984 and written by Peter J. Hammond.One of the more dark and surreal plotlines, it starred John Duttine as Brian Drake, a man who, when suffering a serious injury after being hit by a truck, can no longer work and decides to head off to...
, a British sitcom - Lame Duck Amendment, an informal name for the Twentieth Amendment to the United States ConstitutionTwentieth Amendment to the United States ConstitutionThe Twentieth Amendment to the United States Constitution establishes the beginning and ending of the terms of the elected federal offices. It also deals with scenarios in which there is no President-elect...