lamb

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)A young sheep.

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

2. (countable, obsolete, uncountable)A 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. (uncountable)The flesh of a lamb used as food; (sometimes loosely) the flesh of a sheep of any age used as food.
4. (countable, figuratively, uncountable)A person who is meek, docile, and easily led.

   “Near-synonym: sheep”

5. (countable, uncountable)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. (countable, uncountable)A simple, unsophisticated person.
7. (countable, slang, uncountable)One who ignorantly speculates on the stock exchange and is victimized.
8. (countable, slang, uncountable)A 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.”

   “Pride Month begins June 1, and Mariah Carey is giving her lambs plenty of new clothes to celebrate.”

9. (alt-of, slang)Alternative letter-case form of lamb (“a fan of Mariah Carey”).

   “Mariah Carey’s memoir opens with the great line: “I refuse to acknowledge time, famously so.” As if to establish the rules of the book, then add, with a toss of hair, but you knew that. Most readers of The Meaning of Mariah Carey, which the record-smashing songstress wrote with Michaela Angela Davis, probably already did know that (and are happy to stick to Mariah’s anti-schedule), but there’s plenty in the 337-page volume that will surprise even the most devoted Lambs.”

   “Similarly, although critics panned Glitter for being ‘an unintentionally hilarious compendium of time-tested cinematic clichés that illustrates the chasm between hopeful imitation and successful duplication,’ as the New York Times (Van Gelder 2001) put it, during the #JusticeForGlitter campaign, Mariah Carey’s fans, the Lambs, posted clips from the film on Twitter and reasserted their love for it.”

   “Ryan Reynolds has labelled himself a ‘total Lamb’, as he was revealed to be the brains behind the idea of using Mariah Carey’s Fantasy as the anthem for his upcoming movie Free Guy.”

   “Army go full-on militant for BTS, and Lambs live by Mariah Carey.[…]Mariah Carey’s superfans refer to themselves as Lambs.”

10. (abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, uncountable)Acronym of lentigines, atrial myxomas, mucocutaneous myxomas, and blue naevi.

verb

1. (intransitive)Of a sheep, to give birth.
2. (intransitive, transitive)To assist (sheep) to give birth.

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

name

1. (countable, uncountable)A surname from Middle English.
2. (countable, uncountable)An unincorporated community in Craig Township, Switzerland County, Indiana, United States.
3. (countable, uncountable)An extinct town in Marion County, Missouri, United States.
4. (countable, uncountable)An islet (small island) in the Firth of Forth, East Lothian council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NT5386).
5. Jesus; the Lamb of God

   “And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night. And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.”

   “(See St. Paul's epistles, and the early Fathers.) And we have the expression "washed in the blood of the Lamb" adopted into the Christian Church.”

6. The constellation and zodiacal sign Aries.

   “The Fish, His Church in union bound; The Lamb, once slain, but now enthroned; The Bull the victory shall gain; The Twins, Divine and human reign.”

   “The lamb slain was called the Paschal Lamb. But what was that lamb? Evidently not an earthly lamb — (though certainly the earthly lambs on the hillsides were just then ready to be killed and eaten) — but the heavenly Lamb, which was slain or sacrificed when the Lord "passed over" the equator and obliterated the constellation Aries.”