Deadleg
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Deadleg is a noun meaning A lazy or weak person.
Meaning
A lazy or weak person.
More Meanings
- An isolated section of pipeline that does not usually carry a flow.
- (sports) A movement in which the hips and knees are kept straight and stiff and the ankle is flexed.
- (shipping) A vehicle that is traveling on a leg of its route in which it does not carry any cargo.
- (transitive) To knee someone in the thigh.
- Alternative form of dead leg (injury to the upper thigh)
Example Sentences
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.
I was a bit of a deadleg in them days. You know, footloose and inclined to be rather flirtatious with the ladies.
There should be minimum deadleg between the valve and main process unit and, if possible, means for cleaning the deadleg.
Word Forms
- deadlegs
- dead-leg
- dead leg
- deadlegging
- deadlegged
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include dead-leg, deadheader, lacker, do-nothing, dead beat, slackery.
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