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legging around

legging around is the present participle and gerund of leg around.

Meaning of leg around

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

Questions about legging around

What is legging around the present participle and gerund of?
Legging around is the present participle and gerund of leg around.

Words near legging around in the dictionary

  1. leggily
  2. leggin
  3. leggined
  4. legginess
  5. legging
  6. legging around
  7. legging it
  8. legging out
  9. legging up
  10. legginged
  11. legginglike

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Adapted from Wiktionary: legging around (page history and authors); leg around (page history and authors). 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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