leg

leg1 [ leg ] noun count ***

▸ 1 part of body

▸ 2 clothing covering leg

▸ 3 meat from animal leg

▸ 4 part of furniture

▸ 5 part of trip/race

▸ + PHRASES

1. ) one of the two parts of your body to which your feet are attached:

He's trying to balance on one leg.

She sat down and crossed her legs.

a ) only before noun relating to your leg:

an exercise to strengthen the leg muscles

b ) one of the parts of the body of an insect or animal that it uses for walking:

The horse kicked its hind legs.

Insects have six legs.

2. ) the part of a piece of clothing that covers one of your legs:

There was a dirty mark on his trouser leg.

3. ) a piece of meat that comes from an animal's leg:

roast leg of lamb

4. ) the part of a piece of furniture such as a table or chair that supports it and raises it off the floor:

a stool with three legs

a table leg

5. ) a part of a trip:

the second leg of our cross-country camping trip

the final leg of the band's 30-month World Tour

a ) a part of a race:

the third leg of a round-the-world yacht race

b ) BRITISH one of the two games played between the same two teams that form part of a competition, especially in soccer

have legs AMERICAN INFORMAL

if something such as a news story has legs, people are interested in it for a long time

not have a leg to stand on INFORMAL

to not have any way of proving that you are right about something

=> BREAK1, LAST1, PULL1, SHAKE1, STRETCH1

leg

leg 2 [ leg ] verb

leg it INFORMAL

to run very quickly, especially to escape from someone or something