Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Having bowlegs.

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  • adjective Alternative spelling of bow-legged.

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  • adjective have legs that curve outward at the knees

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Examples

  • Schweitzer hiked their shorts SO far up their behinds that these guys are walkin 'bowlegged!

    GOP beating David 2007

  • They've been described as bowlegged fellers who worked from the hurricane deck of a cow pony and hated any other kind of work.

    Ohmynews International 2010

  • They had a big old English bulldog with them big wide shoulders in front, you know, and kind of bowlegged, and that big wide head with that mouth, little narrow hips on the back.

    Oral History Interview with Geddes Elam Dodson, May 26, 1980. Interview H-0240. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) 1980

  • They have their own walk as well, a little bowlegged and stooped, as if their backs hurt.

    Miles to Go Richard Paul Evans 2011

  • It's still tough to admit that I'm self-published, despite the fact that the publishing world is now a Wild West of rogue indie presses and bowlegged cocky ebook publishers firing their Twitterfeeds in every direction.

    Holly Robinson: Did I Just Hammer a Nail Into My Bookstore's Coffin? Holly Robinson 2012

  • He was, I noticed for the first time, bowlegged, like a rider.

    Furies 2009

  • In his introduction to this collection, a former Rolling Stone editor Paul Scanlon writes about how the young Thompson used to enter their San-Francisco-based office "with a bowlegged quickstep, making the zigzagging seriocomic, dramatic entrance," then plop down his leather rucksack while wordlessly removing the contents, which "usually included something edible, like a grapefruit, a carton of Dunhills, a large police flashlight, a bottle of Wild Turkey and a can of liquid Mace."

    Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride Matt Labash 2011

  • They have their own walk as well, a little bowlegged and stooped, as if their backs hurt.

    Miles to Go Richard Paul Evans 2011

  • He didn't limp toward one leg and I realized he was bowlegged, and could see how I'd made the mistake on the dark gravel road.

    Quarters, Pasos, Arabians Chris Sheehan 2011

  • It's still tough to admit that I'm self-published, despite the fact that the publishing world is now a Wild West of rogue indie presses and bowlegged cocky ebook publishers firing their Twitterfeeds in every direction.

    Holly Robinson: Did I Just Hammer a Nail Into My Bookstore's Coffin? Holly Robinson 2012

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