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dead legs

dead legs is the plural of dead leg.

Meaning of dead leg

Noun

dead leg (plural dead legs)

  1. A blow to the upper thigh, crushing the muscle against the bone and crushing the nerve cluster next to the quadriceps. Also, the resulting injury.
    • I kneed you, I said, and I gave him a dead leg.1994, Roddy Doyle, Paddy Clarke, ha-ha-ha, page 225
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see dead, leg.

Questions about dead legs

What is dead legs the plural of?
Dead legs is the plural of dead leg.

Words near dead legs in the dictionary

  1. dead languages
  2. dead last
  3. dead leaf
  4. dead leaves
  5. dead leg
  6. dead legs
  7. dead letter
  8. dead letter box
  9. dead letter office
  10. dead letter offices
  11. dead letters

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