Definitions
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- noun Plural form of
leg . - noun bingo
eleven - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
leg .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun staying power
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Examples
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A babys legs often bend outward (bow legs), like this.
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By this logic, identical twins are one person (soul-wise), genetic chimaeras are two people, and a set of siamese twins with one head and four legs is the same number of people as a set of siamese twins with two heads and two legs, which is pretty counterintuitive.
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Actually the official definition of the term legs is how long a movie lasts in the theatres.
At the Big Mouse Steve Hulett 2009
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It was so great to get up close and see the difference in their faces and poses, and understand, finally, not only how the pivot at their waists were so beautifully disguised, but to have the mechanism explained: inside their legs is a rod which turns each of them; if you look at the main clock mechanism (above) you will see a large wheel with notches in it.
Archive 2008-06-01 Heather McDougal 2008
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It was so great to get up close and see the difference in their faces and poses, and understand, finally, not only how the pivot at their waists were so beautifully disguised, but to have the mechanism explained: inside their legs is a rod which turns each of them; if you look at the main clock mechanism (above) you will see a large wheel with notches in it.
San Marco Clock Tower, Venice Heather McDougal 2008
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Kolaches: Anyone that makes the trip between Dallas and Austin knows the best place to fill up the tank and stretch your legs is the small town of West.
Homesick Texan holiday gift guide | Homesick Texan Homesick Texan 2006
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Kolaches: Anyone that makes the trip between Dallas and Austin knows the best place to fill up the tank and stretch your legs is the small town of West.
Archive 2006-12-01 Homesick Texan 2006
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He proceeds on the principle that if you insist loudly enough that the broomstick between your legs is a pony, eventually the thing will whinny and gallop.
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He proceeds on the principle that if you insist loudly enough that the broomstick between your legs is a pony, eventually the thing will whinny and gallop.
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Those infamous English will not permit us to proceed far enough from our native land to acquire what they call the legs of the sea.
Springhaven Richard Doddridge 2004
vanishedone commented on the word legs
WeirdNet's giving a plural form distinctive treatment here too. (See eyes... as it were.)
May 22, 2008
bilby commented on the word legs
“Actually the official definition of the term legs is how long a movie lasts in the theatres.”
- At the Big Mouse
(from the examples)
March 3, 2013