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four-leggeds

four-leggeds is the plural of four-legged.

Meaning of four-legged

Noun

four-legged (plural four-leggeds)

  1. An animal that has four legs.
    • The four-leggeds blamed the cleansing on the humans, and decided to destroy all two-leggeds.2000, Clyde Holler, The Black Elk Reader, →ISBN, page 195
    Synonyms:
    quadruped, tetrapod
  2. An intersection where two roads cross.
    • With respect to hazard rating, an opposite and possibly inconsistent explanation might be offered: It may be that drivers underestimate roadside hazards at three-leggeds and relatively speaking overestimate them at four-leggeds.1998, Accident Models for Two-lane Rural Roads: Segments and Intersections

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Questions about four-leggeds

What is four-leggeds the plural of?
Four-leggeds is the plural of four-legged.

Words near four-leggeds in the dictionary

  1. four-leaved clovers
  2. four-legged
  3. four-legged emmet
  4. four-legged friend
  5. four-legged friends
  6. four-leggeds
  7. four-letter
  8. four-letter man
  9. four-letter word
  10. four-letter words
  11. four-lined wave

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