Meaning of Lumbago | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Backache of the lumbar region or lower back, which can be caused by muscle strain or a slipped disc.
   also, attributive, uncountable
2. An episode of such backache.
   also, attributive, countable

Equivalents

Examples

“Sir Oswald Feiling winced as he turned to go home. He had felt a warning twinge of lumbago.”

“We may imagine an athletics coach with a scientific training researching into the physiology and the psychology of runners. [...] He finds out the effects of fatigue, of alcohol, of tobacco, of lumbago and of depression upon their performances.”

CEFR level