Limelight is: A very intense light used in pre-electric theaters created by a controlled heating of the mineral lime until it glows.
Limelight isn't: A word that has anything to do with burying plague victims.
Limelight isn't: A word that has anything to do with burying plague victims.
As an example: A "professor" who does not do his etymological research but know's that lime's extreme alkalinity can be used to disinfect and help the decomposition of bodies might make up a story about plague victims wandering among corpses being the center of a crowd's attention and conflate this supposition with the actual use of limelight in theaters to cast spotlights.
by Kdub9 August 30, 2013
Get the Limelight mug.limani is a very bubbly person who cares a lot of people and a very loud person gets along with anyone , and the name means 'GO BACK TO YOUR ROOTS' which is go way back where you grew up and where your whole life is and where your elderly people are 'ancestors' where your culture basically started .
funeka uyo Lima (short of Limani) mntanam , uze ubone ukuba iqalelephi/baqalephi okhokho bakho .
English translation: "you have to go back to your roots my child , so you can see where your ancestors started ."
English translation: "you have to go back to your roots my child , so you can see where your ancestors started ."
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Get the limelight mug.limelight(s) is a fandom name from the boy band (manband) ‘why don’t we’. the fans pick the name out from their first song ‘taking you’ released in 2016. the first verse ‘i need you in my life like limelight’. when the boys (jonah , corbyn , daniel , jack , zach ) went on twitter and saw the # ‘we are limelights’ and they knew the fans were called limelight’s !
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The Limelight is the place to be if you want to get pure shattered and vomit. Famous for its easy second-hand Glenties women, your sure to get the shift.
People come from far and wide to see the iPod totting DJs who are mad yocks when it comes to saying UGGY UGGY UGGY.
Anyway, it is well known for its distinctive smell of excrement.
If you havent been to Glenties, you haven't seen the largest gathering of shams known to man. Well boy ;)
The Limelight is the place to be if you want to get pure shattered and vomit. Famous for its easy second-hand Glenties women, your sure to get the shift.
People come from far and wide to see the iPod totting DJs who are mad yocks when it comes to saying UGGY UGGY UGGY.
Anyway, it is well known for its distinctive smell of excrement.
If you havent been to Glenties, you haven't seen the largest gathering of shams known to man. Well boy ;)
Sham 1: Syked for Limelight Lad?
Sham 2: Hi sir hi shambuck boy, of course i'm syked, nothing like a good old tug from a Glenties doll.
Sham 2: Hi sir hi shambuck boy, of course i'm syked, nothing like a good old tug from a Glenties doll.
by Concerned Local December 9, 2010
Get the Limelight mug.Are fans of the Boy/Man Band called "Why Don't We" that love the boys at certain times or always. They can like the boys when they are all good and innocent, but when something happens with a girl or they say something they shouldn't say the Fake limelights start to hate on the boys.
When limelights of the boys start to hate on the girls that they have or are dating currently they are considered Fake Limelights because they think that the boys should be all theirs'.
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Get the Fake Limelights mug.THEATRE lamp in which quicklime is heated: a type of lamp in which quicklime is heated to produce a brilliant light. It was used in theatres as an early form of stage lighting.
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