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hollow legs

hollow legs is the plural of hollow leg.

Meaning of hollow leg

Noun

hollow leg (plural hollow legs)

  1. Capacity to eat large quantities.
    • When I was young and growing a lot, and Mama couldn't feed me enough, she used to say I had a hollow leg.1998, Barbara Kingsolver, The Bean Trees, page 228
  2. Ability or tendency to drink large quantities of alcohol.
    • I didn't want his unhappiness or his pain, or his personality changes, but I wanted to drink as much, as often. I certainly wanted his hollow leg.1985, Megan Moran, Lost Years: Confessions of a Woman Alcoholic, page 209

Questions about hollow legs

What is hollow legs the plural of?
Hollow legs is the plural of hollow leg.

Words near hollow legs in the dictionary

  1. hollow book
  2. hollow books
  3. hollow earther
  4. hollow earthers
  5. hollow leg
  6. hollow legs
  7. hollow of the knee
  8. hollow out
  9. hollow point
  10. hollow points
  11. hollow position

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