Definitions
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- adjective Having only
one leg .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Izzard will play the infamous one-legged pirate in Sky1's new version of Robert Louis Stevenson's tale of 18th-century treasure hunting and skulduggery in the west country and the Caribbean.
Eddie Izzard to play Long John Silver in Sky's Treasure Island Tara Conlan 2010
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What she will need is a jury that didn't see her blindside and tackle a one-legged woman.
Tallulah Morehead: Survivor 21: Infants vs Senior citizens: Crime and Punishment. Tallulah Morehead 2010
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In the end the one-legged boy went out of the room with the inspector, the latter accompanied by the anxious and protesting superintendent.
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He'd been a sub rosa sports story for most of his career—the one-legged wrestler who won high-school championships before starring for hometown Arizona State—but the national title rocketed him to a new atmosphere.
An Inspiration Moves Off the Mat Jason Gay 2011
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The one-legged boy who worked on the other side of Johnny bobbed swiftly across the floor to a bin truck that stood empty.
THE APOSTATE 2010
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In the end the one-legged boy went out of the room with the inspector, the latter accompanied by the anxious and protesting superintendent.
THE APOSTATE 2010
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And as in denial of guilt, the one-legged boy replied: It ain't nothin '.
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I covered his right leg, and he was a one-legged man defying all laws of gravitation.
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And as in denial of guilt, the one-legged boy replied: It ain't nothin '.
THE APOSTATE 2010
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The one-legged boy who worked on the other side of Johnny bobbed swiftly across the floor to a bin truck that stood empty.
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