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long-legged

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having a great draft of water: said of a vessel of great length, or long in comparison with its beam.
  • Having long legs or hind limbs.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective having long legs.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Having long legs.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective having long legs

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Examples

  • It was lovely having two brothers, though it was only in later years that I realised how amazing it would have been to have had a sister – not just a civilising influence, but all her long-legged girlfriends would have passed through the house.

    John Suchet: My family values 2011

  • The group had been added to by curious passers-by -- husky miners, mountaineers, and frontiersmen, sons of the long-legged and broad-shouldered generations.

    THE LEAGUE OF THE OLD MEN 2010

  • Stretch, a long-legged radio DJ, is forced to listen in terror as her two callers are sliced up by Leatherface as the song No One Lives Forever plays in the background.

    Tribeca Film: The Reelist: Frightful Noise Tribeca Film 2012

  • The moon over Miami was crescent, a warm breeze ruffled multi-lighted coconut palm fronds, dogs with hats yapped under the tables and around splashing fountains, long-legged Latinas and buff fellas, tourists and druggies and varied genders preened in an endless paseo.

    Lea Lane: South Beach: Then and Now Lea Lane 2011

  • Stretch, a long-legged radio DJ, is forced to listen in terror as her two callers are sliced up by Leatherface as the song No One Lives Forever plays in the background.

    Tribeca Film: The Reelist: Frightful Noise Tribeca Film 2012

  • The invasion of the long-legged critters doesn't come as a surprise to scientists, given three years ago they predicted the King Crabs would invade within 100 years.

    Giant Red Crabs Take Over 'Antarctic Abyss,' Climate Change Blamed (VIDEO) 2011

  • Ms. Lan came to live in Buenos Aires a couple of years ago, and does acrylic paintings of long-legged dancers, practices singing melancholy lyrics and has published a book of verse on tango.

    It Takes Two to Tango, So Long as They're Both Argentines Matt Moffett 2011

  • A husband left for a long-legged creature on the brink of first bloom.

    A Scattering of Rivals Beate Sigriddaughter 2010

  • The Composite order is the most sophisticated, a combination of Ionic grace and Corinthian ornamentation – a long-legged hermaphrodite.

    Renaissance architecture: how to identify the Roman orders 2011

  • They all seem too beautiful, long-legged and are wearing nice shoes.

    Shirley Williams: chair of the judges Janet Murray 2010

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