Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having or furnished with two legs: as, two-legged animals; two-legged shears.

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  • adjective Having or furnished with two legs, or leg-like appendages.

Etymologies

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From two- +‎ legged.

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Examples

  • Thirty there were at least of them, not counting other gods that were neither black nor white, but that still, two-legged, upright and garmented, were beyond all peradventure gods.

    CHAPTER XX 2010

  • In the meantime Jerry continued to run, up port side and down starboard side, from stern to bow and back again, wagging his stump tail and laughing friendliness to the many two-legged gods he encountered.

    CHAPTER XX 2010

  • Too long had he, and the generations before him, lived in intimate relationship with the two-legged gods.

    CHAPTER XX 2010

  • Being so trained, he walked on his four legs superior to them, two-legged though they were; for he had moved and lived always under the aegis of the great two-legged and be-trousered god, Mister Haggin.

    CHAPTER III 2010

  • This was a superior god, two-legged, white-skinned, like Skipper, like Mister Haggin and the couple of other superior gods he had known.

    CHAPTER VII 2010

  • And, sometimes, almost you are to me the ultramodern man, the last word of the two-legged, male human that finds

    CHAPTER VII 2010

  • What he saw was merely a four-legged animal to be thrust aside while he continued his lordly two-legged progress toward the bottle that could set maggots crawling in his brain and make him dream dreams that he was prince, not peasant, that he was a master of matter rather than a slave of matter.

    CHAPTER VII 2010

  • Having learned to navigate the seas, I now knew how to avoid the two-legged variety of sharks who infested the waters of Manhattan.

    Manifesting Michelangelo Joseph Pierce Farrell 2011

  • If anything, it was disappointment Michael experienced, in that this delightful, two-legged god took no further notice of him.

    CHAPTER 1 2010

  • Michael, in Steward's arms, was snarling and growling intimidatingly, not merely at the cow whale but at all the hostile and menacing universe that had thrown panic into the two-legged gods of his floating world.

    CHAPTER XV 2010

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