limbo 1
/lim"boh/ , n. , pl. limbos .
1. ( often cap. ) Rom. Cath. Theol. a region on the border of hell or heaven, serving as the abode after death of unbaptized infants (limbo of infants) and of the righteous who died before the coming of Christ (limbo of the fathers or limbo of the patriarchs) .
2. a place or state of oblivion to which persons or things are regarded as being relegated when cast aside, forgotten, past, or out of date: My youthful hopes are in the limbo of lost dreams.
3. an intermediate, transitional, or midway state or place.
4. a place or state of imprisonment or confinement.
[ 1300-50; ME, from ML phrase in limbo on hell's border (L: on the edge), equiv. to in on + limbo, abl. of limbus edge, border (L), place bordering on hell (ML); see LIMBUS 1 ]
limbo 2
/lim"boh/ , n. , pl. limbos .
a dance from the West Indies, originally for men only, in which the dancer bends backward from the knees and moves with a shuffling step under a horizontal bar that is lowered after each successive pass.
[ 1955-60; cf. Jamaican E limba to bend, easily bending; see LIMBER 1 ]