legging

leg +‎ -ing

• IPA^(key): /lɛɡ.ɪŋ/
• Rhymes: -ɛɡɪŋ

legging (plural leggings)

1. A covering, usually of leather, worn from knee to ankle.
2. Tight fitting leg coverings worn, for example, to gym.
3. One of the legs of a pair of trousers.
   • Take the legging and turn up the cuff.
4. The process of putting a series of three or more options strikes into the stock market.
   • 2000, Michael Williams, Amy Hoffman, Fundamentals of Options Market (McGraw Hill Professional, page 128)

     As a practical matter, you cannot put on these positions simultaneously at reasonable prices. In order to achieve these positions at a reasonable risk/reward profile, you must put the positions in a series of separate trades. This process is called legging.

• jeggings
• meggings
• treggings

legging

1. present participle of leg

• legging it
• bootlegging
• peg-legging

• eggling

From leggen +‎ -ing.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɛɣɪŋ/

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• Hyphenation: leg‧ging

legging f (plural leggingen, diminutive legginkje n)

1. (chiefly in compounds) act of placing

Borrowed from English legging.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɛɡɪŋ/, /ˈlɛɣɪŋ/
• Hyphenation: leg‧ging

legging m (plural leggings, diminutive legginkje n)

1. legging (leg covering)

From leggja +‎ -ing.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɛcːiŋk/

legging f (genitive singular leggingar, nominative plural leggingar)

1. frill, ruffle (decorative strip of material)