three-legged

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three-legged

  • /θɹiːˈlɛɡɪd/
  • /ˈθɹiːlɛɡd/

adjective

  1. not comparable Having three legs.

    Similar: tripedal

  2. humorous, not comparable, slang, vulgar Having a large penis.

    Similar: black where it counts, horse-hung, hung like a bull, hung like a horse, hung like a donkey, meat for days, meat for the poor, macrophallic, megalophallic, three-legged, tons of basket, well-endowed

noun three-leggeds

  1. Something with three legs. The three-leggeds had everyone in stitches. Some pairs simply could not learn to run together — just impossible.
  2. An intersection where three roads meet. 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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adj having three legs

Deutschdreibeinig
Русскийтрёхно́гий trjoxnógij

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@misc{three_legged_2026,
  title = {three-legged},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/three-legged},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}