three-legged
English
Pronunciation
- (adjective) IPA(key): /θɹiːˈlɛɡɪd/, /ˈθɹiːlɛɡd/
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- (noun) IPA(key): /θɹiːˈlɛɡɪd/
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Synonyms
- (having three legs): tripedal
- (having a large penis): Thesaurus:macrophallic
Translations
having three legs
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having large penis
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Noun
three-legged (plural three-leggeds)
- Something with three legs.
- 1983, Trevor Shearston, Sticks That Kill: A Novel, page 447:
- The three-leggeds had everyone in stitches. Some pairs simply could not learn to run together — just impossible.
- 1999, Cheng Ch'ing-wen, Three-Legged Horse, →ISBN, page 159:
- My father said that three-leggeds are more detestable than four-leggeds.
- An intersection where three roads meet.
- 1998, Accident Models for Two-lane Rural Roads: Segments and Intersections:
- 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.
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