lamb

noun

1. 1

   A young sheep; especially, one younger than nine months.

   Mary had a little lamb, its fleece as white as snow.

   Mark and Mark have raised some lambs for market, and they won a blue ribbon for quality at the fair.

2. 2

   obsoleteA young goat; a kid.

   The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], 1611, →OCLC, Exodus 12:5: “Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats:”

3. 3

   The flesh of a lamb used as food; (sometimes loosely) the flesh of a sheep of any age used as food.

4. 4

   figurativeA person who is meek, docile, and easily led.

   Near-synonym: sheep

5. 5

   Lambskin.

   They were as alike as prisoners, dressed in black silk waists and fitted skirts, with shawls of crimped black lamb across their shoulders.

6. 6

   A simple, unsophisticated person.

7. 7

   slangOne who ignorantly speculates on the stock exchange and is victimized.

8. 8

   slangA fan of American singer, songwriter, actress, and record producer Mariah Carey (born 1969).

   Part of me revels in the campiness of Mariah’s butterfly metaphors and puppies-and-kittens existence. […] But I also genuinely love her music, including this album. I’m one of her lambs.

   Her latest album, “Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel,” is her best work yet, a warmer and more subtle album that makes her more relatable to those of us who aren’t Mariah die-hards—or “lambs,” as she refers to them.

   This year, Ms. Carey debuted a new Las Vegas revue, and, to celebrate, a group of 36 “lambs,” mostly in their 30s and 40s, boarded a party bus and cruised the Vegas strip for about three hours.

   But when I saw Mariah in Detroit last year during the Caution World Tour, I was a proud lamb in my tour T-shirt, my very adult body suddenly transformed into my 14-year-old self when she emerged onstage.

verb

1. 1

   Of a sheep, to give birth.

2. 2

   To assist (sheep) to give birth.

   The shepherd was up all night, lambing her young ewes.

Forms

plural

lambs, lamber, lambren

past tense

lambed

past participle

lambed

present participle

lambing

third person singular

lambs