Meaning

A lazy or weak person..

Definitions by Sense

1. A lazy or weak person.
2. An isolated section of pipeline that does not usually carry a flow.
3. Alternative form of dead leg (injury to the upper thigh)
4. (sports) A movement in which the hips and knees are kept straight and stiff and the ankle is flexed.
5. (shipping) A vehicle that is traveling on a leg of its route in which it does not carry any cargo.
6. (transitive) To knee someone in the thigh.

Example Sentences

I was a bit of a deadleg in them days. You know, footloose and inclined to be rather flirtatious with the ladies.

"I can tell you now, he's a no-good," said the Liverpool D.C.I. "His form is nothing to speak of, but he's the errand lad and head butterer-up for a deadleg called Pete Garside.

For the next year Liz lived alone with Lindy, occasionally consorting with 'more deadlegs', one of whom bruised Lindy when he had been drinking.

There should be minimum deadleg between the valve and main process unit and, if possible, means for cleaning the deadleg.

The pig trap was just under forty feet long, but the final six-foot section was a deadleg.

Since air is denser than steam at sterilization temperatures, air will be displaced downward in the deadleg.

Gordon Biggs, on his way to biology, his favorite class, turns a corner and is immediately seized and stunned by a deadleg to the thigh, (judicious application of the knee to the fleshy part of the upper leg, resulting in prolonged numbness, hence the term 'deadleg').

Deadleg drills can also be performed by having one leg serve as the dealeg (hips and knees stiff, ankles dorsiflexed, active ground contact with the foot and the heel adhering o the credit card rule) and having the opposite leg perform other drills, such as A-skips, B-skips or straight-leg skips.

Word Forms

• deadlegs
• dead-leg
• dead leg
• deadlegging
• deadlegged

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