three-legged

English

Adjective

three-legged (not comparable)

  1. having three legs
  2. (informal, vulgar) Having a large penis.

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Noun

three-legged (plural three-leggeds)

  1. 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.
  2. 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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