limbo

Universal Words noun 1 [sing.] a West Indian dance in which you lean backwards and go under a bar which is made lower each time you go under it 2 [U,sing.] a situation in which you are not certain what to do next, cannot take action, etc., especially because you are waiting for sb else to make a decision: the limbo of the stateless person * His life seemed stuck in limbo; he could not go forward and he could not go back.