leg
- noun
- /lɛg/
- For safety sake, use the strength of your legs, not your back.
- arms and legs
- legs and feet
- left leg
As long as I didn't train legs, you could.
- As long as I didn't train legs, you could.
- And my my right leg was worse than my left.
- My knee hits the hits the concrete, my leg goes dead right.
- She's standing on the right leg all the way hip out.
- But yeah, it like single leg, like Romanian deadlift.
- But yeah, it's side box jumps, high knees, leg complex, right squatting.
- Eyes, Dick, arms, legs, hands, face, mouth, tongue.
- So this boy has both hands, one leg up tickling me.
Examples
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After running a marathon, she felt pain in her left leg.
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They just treated a guy who had a knife wound in the leg.
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And my my right leg was worse than my left.
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And then on your leg, man, what is that?
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- Is your leg okay?
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Lift your right foot, run up the inside of your leg and hold.
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Let go of my leg, Emma!
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Then he broke his leg, didn't he?
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She only has a concussion and a broken leg.
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PAD is usually diagnosed from the typical history of leg muscle pain on exertion.
Academic text (2012)
Idioms
- Offensive
To lie to someone in an obvious way while expecting them to believe it
Compounds
- Specialized
An exercise that bends the knee to lift the lower leg toward the buttocks and work the hamstrings
Legs that curve outward below the knee so the knees stay apart when the feet are together
- Jargon
A pommel horse move where both legs swing together in a circle while the hands switch on the handles
A cricket dismissal when a batsman's leg blocks the ball from hitting the stumps and the umpire signals out
- Specialized
An exercise that strengthens the muscles at the back of the thigh by bending the knee against a weight
- Specialized
An exercise done on a machine that makes the front thigh muscles stronger by straightening the knee
- Specialized
A tool with two legs curved the same way used to mark or measure distances on flat metal
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Etymology
Leg comes from an old Norse word leggr that meant 'leg' or 'bone', so the word has long named the limb we use for walking and standing.