two-legged
English
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edit- (adjective) IPA(key): /tuːˈlɛɡɪd/, /ˈtuːlɛɡd/
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- (noun) IPA(key): /tuːˈlɛɡɪd/
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Adjective
edittwo-legged (not comparable)
Translations
edithaving two legs
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Noun
edittwo-legged (plural two-leggeds)
- Someone or something with two legs, especially human beings.
- 2000, Clyde Holler, The Black Elk Reader, →ISBN, page 195:
- The four-leggeds blamed the cleansing on the humans, and decided to destroy all two-leggeds.
- 2011, Allan J. Hamilton, (Please provide the book title or journal name), →ISBN:
- Because most of the animals had learned to distrust the two-leggeds, they shrank back into the forest.
- 2013, Vine Deloria, Vine Deloria, Jr., James Treat, For This Land: Writings on Religion in America, →ISBN, page 238:
- It was a serious race, for the two-leggeds —human beings and birds— were racing the four-leggeds to determine which should feed the others.
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