Dangler
The one card in a pot-limit Omaha hand that does not work with the other three. A dangler reduces a four-card hand to something closer to a three-card hand, because it almost never contributes to the combination you end up using.
Ace-king-queen-deuce offhand looks like it contains an ace and a lot of high cards; in practice the deuce is dead weight, and the hand plays like a three-card holding against opponents whose four cards all cooperate. That is why Omaha starting-hand quality is about coordination rather than raw card strength.
The exception is a dangler that brings a second suit or an ace — a card that does nothing for straights can still earn its place by adding a nut flush possibility.
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Is a hand with a dangler always unplayable?
No — if the dangler is an ace or adds a second suit it can still pay for itself, but a disconnected low card usually does not.