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leg it

leg it verb: to run away, to flee.

Verb

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

  1. (UK, intransitive, slang) To run away, to flee.
    • After snatching my handbag he just legged it.
  2. (UK, intransitive, slang) To hurry.
    • As soon as I heard about the fire I legged it over here as fast as I could.

leg it meaning in Malayalam

leg it in Malayalam

flee, run (away), make off
ഓടിപ്പോവുക, ഓടിക്കളയുക, കടന്നുകളയുക, പലായനംചെയ്യുക, ഓടിമറയുക, ഓടിരക്ഷപ്പെടുക
walk, march, tramp
നടന്നുപോകുക, നടക്കുക, കാൽനടയായി യാത്ര ചെയ്യുക, കാൽനടയായി പോവുക, അണിയണിയായി നടക്കുക, കവാത്തുനടക്കുുക

Synonyms of leg it

Forms of leg it

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

Questions about leg it

What does leg it mean?
Leg it means to run away, to flee.
What is leg it in Malayalam?
Leg it in Malayalam is ഓടിപ്പോവുക, ഓടിക്കളയുക, കടന്നുകളയുക. See Leg it meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is leg it?
Leg it is a verb.
What is the past tense of leg it?
The past tense of leg it is legged it.

Words near leg it in the dictionary

  1. leg extensions
  2. leg glance
  3. leg glances
  4. leg iron
  5. leg irons
  6. leg it
  7. leg lock
  8. leg locks
  9. leg man
  10. leg men
  11. leg out

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Adapted from Wiktionary: leg it (page history and authors); leg it (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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