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leg around

leg around verb: to hang around a person or place to suck up to them, to lobby them or to otherwise get special treatment.

Verb

leg around (third-person singular simple present legs around, present participle legging around, simple past and past participle legged around)

  1. (archaic, slang) To hang around a person or place to suck up to them, to lobby them or to otherwise get special treatment.
    • We believe the dealer in building material is "legging around" after the architect, contractor and builder, with the same end in view that the publisher of the Clay-Worker has in "legging around" after him to get an order for advertising.1896, Stone, volume 13, page 68

Forms of leg around

third-person singular presentlegs around
present participlelegging around
past participlelegged around
pastlegged around

Questions about leg around

What does leg around mean?
Leg around means to hang around a person or place to suck up to them, to lobby them or to otherwise get special treatment.
What part of speech is leg around?
Leg around is a verb.
What is the past tense of leg around?
The past tense of leg around is legged around.

Words near leg around in the dictionary

  1. leful
  2. lefull
  3. Lefurgey
  4. Lefurgeys
  5. leg
  6. leg around
  7. leg art
  8. leg bail
  9. leg band
  10. leg bands
  11. leg before

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