Hamstring

Quick meaning: Hamstring is a noun meaning (informal) The biceps femoris, semimembranosus, and semitendinosus muscles.

Meaning

(informal) The biceps femoris, semimembranosus, and semitendinosus muscles.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To lame or disable by cutting the tendons of the ham or knee; to hough.
2. (transitive, figurative) To cripple; to incapacitate; to disable.
3. (anatomy) One of the great tendons situated in each side of the ham, or space back of the knee, and connected with the muscles of the back of the thigh.

Example Sentences

So have they hamstrung the valor of the subject by seeking to effeminate us all at home.

Developing muscle around both sides of a joint (think biceps and triceps, abs and low back, quads and hamstrings) should be one of your primary training considerations because strength on each side leads to lower injury rates.

Its trademark policies of privatization, deregulation, tax cuts and free trade deals: these have liberated corporations to accumulate enormous profits and treat the atmosphere like a sewage dump, and hamstrung our ability, through the instrument of the state, to plan for our collective welfare.

Word Forms

• hamstrings
• hamstringing
• hamstrung
• hamstringed

Synonyms for hamstring

Depending on context, synonyms include hammy, hammie, hock, hough, hox, cripple.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include paralysing, crippling, semitendinosus, semimembranosus, thigh, vastus.

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