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# legless

«legless» in Mova's school dictionary: **Having no legs: a legless lizard** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (legless)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Having no legs: a legless lizard. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/legless/#m1)

2) (UK, slang) Very drunk, so drunk that a person cannot stand or walk properly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/legless/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science a «legless lizard» or snakes are legless animals; it helps when sorting animals by body parts. In British and Irish everyday talk «legless» means badly drunk; in stories it shows a grown-up who drank far too much — a warning about alcohol.

### examples

- A snake is a legless reptile. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/legless/#x1)
- The slow-worm is a legless lizard, not a snake. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/legless/#x2)
- Worms are legless, but they still move. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/legless/#x3)
- The old table stood legless in the garden. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/legless/#x4)
- (UK, slang) He got legless at the wedding and had to be taken home. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/legless/#x5)
- (slang) They were completely legless after the party. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/legless/#x6)
- Armless wanted to plunge in straightway, but Legless shrieked, "Wait, brother! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/legless/#x7)

### note

Built from leg + -less («without»). The slang sense is only for adults drinking and is informal. In counting problems a legless animal adds 0 legs to the total.

### In the corpora

- ["Legless" is British slang for so drunk one cannot stand.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/30-drinking-and-drugs/23/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «legless» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/legless/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.