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tangle-leg

tangle-leg is the alternative form of tanglelegs.

Meaning of tanglelegs

Noun

tanglelegs (uncountable)

  1. (US, archaic) Alcoholic liquor.
    • You remind me of a sailor I saw the other day. Jack was already "half seas over," when he went into Smith's and called for an ounce of old tangle-legs. Thinks I, what is that? So I kept my eye on the scales, but Smith understood him; so he gave him a glass, you see, and off he went. But, dear me, I...1844, “The Monster of Many Names”, in Temperance Dialogues, New York: American Temperance Union

Questions about tangle-leg

What is tangle-leg the alternative form of?
Tangle-leg is the alternative form of tanglelegs.

Words near tangle-leg in the dictionary

  1. Tangku
  2. Tanglag
  3. Tanglaw
  4. tangle
  5. tangle net
  6. tangle-leg
  7. tangle-wrack
  8. tangled
  9. tangled nest spider
  10. tangled nest spiders
  11. tangled web

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