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Princeton's WordNet

  1. legsnoun

    staying power

    "that old Broadway play really has legs"

Wiktionary

  1. legsnoun

    eleven

Wikipedia

  1. legs

    "Hot Legs is a single by Rod Stewart. Stewart included the song on his 1977 album Foot Loose & Fancy Free. The 1977 single performed moderately well on the United States Hot 100 (#28), and well on the UK Singles Chart (#5). In the UK, "Hot Legs" and "I Was Only Joking" charted together as a double A-side. In 1993, Stewart recorded a live version during his MTV Unplugged session which appeared on the album Unplugged...and Seated. Artists who have recorded cover versions of "Hot Legs" include Tom Jones, Tina Turner, and American rock band Orgy. Bon Jovi have occasionally covered this song on the Circle Tour. Since the original recording/video, the lyrics in the last verse have been changed. The lead guitar that is prominent throughout the song was performed by Billy Peek, a Saint Louis, Missouri native who was in Rod Stewart's band in the mid-seventies.

ChatGPT

  1. legs

    1) In anatomy, legs are the parts of the body used for standing, walking, running and other physical activities, located below the torso and typically extending from the hips to the feet in humans and other bipedal creatures. 2) In the context of furniture or objects, legs refer to the supporting pillars or structures that raise the main body of the object off the ground. 3) In sports or races, a leg often refers to a stage or section of the course. 4) In geometry, a leg is either of the two sides of a right-angled triangle that forms the right angle. 5) In travel, a leg can refer to a part or stage of a journey.

Dictionary of Nautical Terms

  1. legs

    (See ANGLE.) A fast-sailing vessel is said to have legs.--Legs are used in cutters, yachts, &c., to shore them up in dry harbours when the tide leaves them. The leech-line cringles have also been called legs. Also, the parts of a point which hang on each side of the sail.

Editors Contribution

  1. legsnoun

    Plural noun of leg

    The table legs are beautiful.


    Submitted by MaryC on March 16, 2016  

Suggested Resources

  1. LEGS

    What does LEGS stand for? -- Explore the various meanings for the LEGS acronym on the Abbreviations.com website.

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British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'legs' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #1638

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'legs' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1349

Anagrams for legs »

  1. ElGs

  2. ELGs

  3. gels

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of legs in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of legs in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of legs in a Sentence

  1. Kate Carey:

    If you swap in any other physically harmful and psychologically harmful event, a prevalence of 15 percent would be just unacceptably high, if, for instance, 15 percent of our young people were breaking their legs in their first year of school, we would expect that the community would do something to enhance the safety of the environment.

  2. Jane Seymour:

    He sat down next to me and said,' Well, I've told everyone you're perfect for my movie and I can't wait. I've done my bit. Now it's your turn to do your bit,' she recalled. Jane Seymour said she did n’t understand what the producer was referring to, until he began sliding his hand up her thigh. He said,' No, no, you know what you have to do.' And I'm going,' No, I don't.' And he put his hand on my thigh, way up high. And being very British, I sort of crossed my legs and started scooting down the couch until I'd ended up with no couch left and I really had no option but to stand up and just say,' Please help me get home, ’.

  3. Younis Abu Amrah:

    If we knew he was going to do this, we would have broken his legs. This is unacceptable.

  4. Uma Thurman:

    The steering wheel was at my belly and my legs were jammed under me, i felt this searing pain and thought, ‘ Oh my God, I ’m never going to walk again. ’.

  5. Dusty Baker:

    It has more to do with Michael, the workload on Michael’s legs, don’t forget he’s coming off that hammy. You’ve got to pick your poison. Do I give up some defense or do I take a chance on losing Michael? I’m more worried about that. We’re trying to protect Michael and keep his bat in the lineup at the same time.

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