three-legged
/θɹiːˈlɛɡɪd/
three-legged adjective: having three legs.
Adjective
three-legged (not comparable)
- Having three legs.
- Synonyms:
- tripedal
- Having a large penis.
- Synonyms:
- black where it counts, horse-hung, hung like a bull, hung like a horse, hung like a donkey, meat for days, meat for the poor, macrophallic, megalophallic, tons of basket
Noun
three-legged (plural three-leggeds)
- Something with three legs.
- The three-leggeds had everyone in stitches. Some pairs simply could not learn to run together — just impossible.1983, Trevor Shearston, Sticks That Kill: A Novel, page 447
- My father said that three-leggeds are more detestable than four-leggeds.1999, Cheng Ch'ing-wen, Three-Legged Horse, →ISBN, page 159
- An intersection where three roads meet.
- With respect to hazard rating, an opposite and possibly inconsistent explanation might be offered: It may be that drivers underestimate roadside hazards at three-leggeds and relatively speaking overestimate them at four-leggeds.1998, Accident Models for Two-lane Rural Roads: Segments and Intersections
three-legged meaning in Marathi and Bengali
three-legged in Marathi
- having three legs
- तीन पायांचे tīn pāyāñce, तीन पायांचा tīn pāyāñcā, तीन पायांची tīn pāyāñcī
three-legged in Bengali
- three-legged
- তেপায়া tepaẏa
Synonyms of three-legged
- tripedal
- black where it counts
- horse-hung
- hung like a bull
- hung like a horse
- hung like a donkey
- meat for days
- meat for the poor
- macrophallic
- megalophallic
3 more synonymsFewer synonyms
- tons of basket
- well-endowed
- well-hung
Forms of three-legged
| plural | three-leggeds |
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Phrases with three-legged
Questions about three-legged
- What does three-legged mean?
- Three-legged means having three legs.
- What is three-legged in Marathi?
- Three-legged in Marathi is तीन पायांचे (tīn pāyāñce), तीन पायांचा (tīn pāyāñcā), तीन पायांची (tīn pāyāñcī). See Three-legged meaning in Marathi.
- What part of speech is three-legged?
- Three-legged can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce three-legged?
- Three-legged is pronounced /θɹiːˈlɛɡɪd/.
Words near three-legged in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: three-legged (page history and authors); তেপায়া (Bengali) (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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