Usually means: Operating with depleted resources, energy.
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General (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. running on empty: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. Running On Empty, Running on Empty (Hardy Boys novel), Running on Empty (album), Running on Empty (song), Running on Empty: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  3. Running on Empty: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Running on Empty: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Running on Empty: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Running on Empty: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. running on empty: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. running on empty, Running on Empty: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wikipedia (Running on Empty)

noun:  a 1988 American drama film directed by Sidney Lumet and written by Naomi Foner and starring River Phoenix, Judd Hirsch, Christine Lahti, and Martha Plimpton.
noun:  (released in America as Fast Lane Fever) a 1982 Australian action film.
noun:  the fifth album by American singer-songwriter Jackson Browne.
noun:  "Running on Empty" is a song by American singer-songwriter Jackson Browne.
noun:  the 36th young adult novel in the long running and successful Hardy Boys casebook series for boys written by Franklin W. Dixon.
noun:  a 2006 German drama film directed by Bülent Akinci.
noun:  a 2024 romantic comedy science fiction film written and directed by Daniel André and starring Lucy Hale and Keir Gilchrist.


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