two-legged

From two +‎ legged.

• (adjective) IPA^(key): /tuːˈlɛɡɪd/, /ˈtuːlɛɡd/

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• (noun) IPA^(key): /tuːˈlɛɡɪd/

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two-legged (not comparable)

1. Having or furnished with two legs, or leg-like appendages.

   two-legged animals

   two-legged shears

two-legged (plural two-leggeds)

1. Someone or something with two legs, especially human beings.
   • 2000, Clyde Holler, The Black Elk Reader, →ISBN, page 195:

     The four-leggeds blamed the cleansing on the humans, and decided to destroy all two-leggeds.

   • 2011, Allan J. Hamilton, (Please provide the book title or journal name), →ISBN:

     Because most of the animals had learned to distrust the two-leggeds, they shrank back into the forest.

   • 2013, Vine Deloria, Vine Deloria, Jr., James Treat, For This Land: Writings on Religion in America, →ISBN, page 238:

     It was a serious race, for the two-leggeds —human beings and birds— were racing the four-leggeds to determine which should feed the others.