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单词 dead-leg
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dead-legv.

Brit. /ˈdɛdlɛɡ/, U.S. /ˈdɛdˌlɛɡ/, Irish English /ˈdɛdlɛɡ/
Origin: Apparently formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: dead leg n. 3
Etymology: Apparently < dead leg n. 3 (although the noun is first attested later in the relevant sense: see sense 3 s.v.).
British and Irish English colloquial.
transitive. To administer a numbing kick or blow to (a person's) leg, esp. with one's knee; to give (a person) a dead leg. Cf. dead leg n. 3.
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1972 Daily Tel. 8 June 3/2 The court was told that after two teenagers tried to ‘dead leg’ a boy of 13 he had to have an operation to remove one of his testicles.
1981 B. Ashley Dodgem ix. 195 Nick's first boot dead-legged Simon in the calf.
1988 G. Patterson Burning your Own iii. iii. 182 Mucker deadlegged him and Andy groaned, sinking to one knee.
2000 T. White in N. Blincoe & M. Thorne All Hail New Puritans 187 His toes caught her thigh. She doubled up, and he guessed he'd dead-legged her.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
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