dead leg
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.55 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A blow to the upper thigh, crushing the muscle against the bone and crushing the nerve cluster next to the quadriceps. Also, the resulting injury.
noun
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see dead, leg.
Example Sentences
- "I kneed you, I said, and I gave him a dead leg."
- "Knowing all this it can still take you by surprise, like a dead leg or a sudden punch to the solar plexus."
- "All at once something rose through the vacancy, the frightening void that was like the dead leg some kids had been adept at giving in the playground."
- "I would also not have had the delight of receiving a shockingly painful random dead leg from Ben Coulter who, as I collapsed to my knees in agonizing pain, would laugh so hard, it would bring up a big blue vein that ran down his huge, dome-like forehead."
- "However, care has to be taken to prevent oily material congealing on the walls of pipes, tanks, pumps and other equipments where there are points of restrictions as valves, bends or dead legs."
- "Supply and return lines should not contain dead legs."