leg

leg

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leg¹ S1 W1 /leɡ/ noun1.  BODY PART  [countable] one of the long parts of your body that your feet are joined to, or a similar part on an animal or insect:
    a young boy with skinny legs
    She fell and broke her leg.
    four-legged/long-legged etc
    four-legged animals
2.  MEAT  [uncountable and countable] the leg of an animal when it is cooked and eaten as food:
    roast leg of lamb
3.
   FURNITURE .nbsp;[countable] one of the upright parts that support a piece of furniture:
    One of the legs on the table was a bit wobbly.
    a chair leg
    a three-legged stool
4.  CLOTHING  [countable] the part of your trousers that covers your leg:
    The legs of my jeans were covered in mud.
    He rolled up his trouser legs and waded out into the stream.
5.  JOURNEY/RACE  [countable] one part of a long journey or race
    leg of
    the final leg of the Tour de France
6.  SPORT  [countable] British English one of the series of games in a football competition played between two teams:
    Leeds will have to win the second leg if they are to go forward to the finals.
7. not have a leg to stand on informal to be in a situation where you cannot prove or legally support what you say:
    If you didn’t sign a contract, you won’t have a leg to stand on.
8. get your leg over British English informal not polite to have sex with someone
9. have legs American English informal if a piece of news has legs, people continue to be interested in it and talk about it
⇨ on its last legs at last¹(9), ⇨ on your last legs at last¹(8), ⇨ pull sb’s leg at pull¹(11), ⇨ leg-pull, leg-up, peg leg, sea legs, ⇨ shake a leg at shake¹(9), ⇨ show a leg at show¹(23), ⇨ stretch your legs at stretch¹(7)

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leg² verb (past tense and past participle legged, present participle legging) British English informal
leg it to run in order to escape from someone or something:
    We saw him coming, and legged it out of the house.