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单词 shake a leg
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leg /leg/

noun
  1. A limb used for walking
  2. The human lower limb, or sometimes the part between knee and ankle
  3. A long, slender support of eg a table
  4. A branch or limb of anything forked or jointed, eg a pair of compasses
  5. A single short trunk, as of a fruit bush not managed as a stool (qv), from which branches grow (horticulture)
  6. The part of a garment that covers the leg
  7. A distinct part or stage of a course or journey
  8. In sports, one event or part in a contest consisting of two or more parts or events
  9. The legside of a cricket field
  10. A backward movement of the leg in making a bow (archaic)
  11. A swindler, esp at a race-course (for blackleg; old slang)
transitive verb and intransitive verb
  1. To walk briskly, run or dash away (vt with it)
  2. To propel (a barge) through a canal tunnel by pushing with the feet on the wall or roof
adjective

On the legside of a cricket field

ORIGIN: ON leggr a leg; Dan læg, Swed lägg

legged /legd or legˈid/ adjective

(usu as combining form) having (a certain type, number, etc of) legs

leggˈer noun

  1. A bargeman who legs
  2. A worker or machine that makes stocking-legs

leggˈiness noun

leggˈing noun

  1. An outer and extra covering for the leg, eg (in pl) thick, footless tights, usu of wool or knitted fabric, or fashion varieties made in other, thinner materials
  2. An outer and extra covering for the lower leg

leggˈism noun (archaic)

The character of a blackleg

leggˈy adjective

  1. Having noticeably long slim legs
  2. (of a plant) having a long stem

legˈless adjective

  1. Having no legs
  2. Very drunk (informal)

legˈlessness noun

legˈlet noun

Any object worn on the leg for decoration

leg bail see give leg bail under bail1

leg before and leg before wicket noun (cricket)

A way of being given out when the ball has struck the batsman's legs, or another part of his body, without having made contact with the bat, and would otherwise have hit the wicket (abbrev lbw)

leg break noun (cricket)

A ball that breaks from the legside towards the offside on pitching

legˈ-busˈiness noun (slang)

Ballet-dancing

leg bye noun (cricket)

A run made after the ball has touched any part of the batsman's person except his hands or bat, credited to the batsman's team but not his individual score

legˈ-cutter noun (cricket)

A fast bowler's delivery that moves from leg to off after pitching

legˈ-guard noun

A cricketer's pad

legˈ-iron noun

A fetter for the leg

legˈ-man or legˈ-woman noun

  1. A person whose work involves journeys outside the office
  2. An assistant who runs errands or gathers information
  3. A newspaper reporter

leg-of-muttˈon adjective

  1. Shaped like a leg of mutton, eg a triangular sail
  2. (of a sleeve) tight on the lower arm and full between elbow and shoulder

legˈ-over noun (vulgar sl)

An act of sexual intercourse

legˈ-pull noun

A good-humoured hoax, bluff or practical joke

legˈ-puller noun

legˈ-pulling noun

legˈ-rest noun

A support for the legs

legˈroom noun

Space for one's legs, as in a car

legˈ-show noun

An entertainment depending mainly on the exhibition of women's legs

legˈside noun

That half of a cricket field on the side on which the batsman stands when waiting to receive the ball, separated from the offside by an imaginary line drawn from wicket to wicket

adjective

On the legside

leg slip noun (cricket)

A fielder or position slightly behind the batsman on the legside

leg spin noun (cricket)

Spin imparted to a ball to cause a leg break

legˈ-spin adjective

leg spinner noun (cricket)

Someone who bowls leg breaks

leg theory noun (cricket)

  1. The policy of bowling short-pitched leg-side balls persistently at the batsman's body with a large number of leg-side fielders close to the wicket
  2. Bodyline

leg warmers plural noun

Long footless socks

legˈwear noun

Anything worn on the legs, eg socks, stockings, etc

leg-woman see leg-man above.

legˈwork noun (informal)

Work involving much travelling, searching, etc

change the leg

(of a horse) to change the gait

feel one's legs

To begin to support oneself on one's legs

find one's legs

To become familiar or accustomed

fine, long, short and square leg (cricket) see under fine, etc.

get one's leg over (vulgar sl; of a man)

To have sex

give someone a leg up

To give someone a help or hoist in mounting, climbing, etc (also figurative)

in high leg (archaic)

In great excitement

not have a leg to stand on

To have no case at all

on one's last legs see under last1

on one's legs

Standing, esp while speaking

pull someone's leg

To make a playful attempt to hoax or deceive someone

shake a leg (informal)

To hurry up

show a leg

  1. To make an appearance
  2. To get up

upon one's legs

In an independent position

shake /shāk/

transitive verb (pat shook or obsolete shāked and shākt; pap shākˈen or obsolete shāked, shākt and shook)
  1. To move with quick, short, often violent to-and-fro or up-and-down movements
  2. To brandish
  3. To cause to tremble or to totter
  4. To disturb the stability of
  5. To cause to waver
  6. To disturb
  7. To dismay
  8. To unnerve, shock
  9. To alert, rouse, summon (slang)
  10. To put, send, render or cause to be, by shaking
  11. To scatter or send down by shaking
  12. To split
  13. To get rid of (US; old)
intransitive verb
  1. To be agitated
  2. To tremble
  3. To shiver
  4. To shake hands
  5. To trill (music)
  6. To happen (slang)
noun
  1. A shaking
  2. Tremulous motion
  3. (in pl with the) a fit of uncontrollable trembling (informal)
  4. A damaging or weakening blow
  5. A shaken-up drink (esp a milk shake)
  6. A trillo (music)
  7. A fissure or crack (esp in rock or in growing timber)
  8. A moment (informal)
ORIGIN: OE sc(e)acan

shakeˈable or shākˈable adjective

shākˈen adjective

shākˈer noun

  1. A person who shakes
  2. A person who makes things happen, as in the phrase mover and shaker
  3. A device for shaking (eg drinks)
  4. A perforated container from which something, eg flour, is shaken
  5. (with cap; in pl) a name popularly applied to an American religious sect, the United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing, as a result of their ecstatic dancing, also formerly to Quakers and sects whose religious fervour manifested itself in violent trembling

Shākˈerism noun

shākˈily adverb

shākˈiness noun

shākˈing noun and adjective

shākˈy adjective

  1. Shaking or inclined to shake
  2. Loose
  3. Tremulous
  4. Precarious
  5. Uncertain
  6. Wavering
  7. Unsteady
  8. Frail from old age or illness
  9. Full of cracks or clefts

shakeˈ-bag noun

  1. A fighting cock turned out of a bag
  2. A large fighting cock

shakeˈdown noun

  1. A temporary bed (orig made by shaking down straw)
  2. A trial run, operation, etc to familiarize personnel with procedures and machinery (chiefly US; informal)
  3. An act of extortion or blackmail (slang)
  4. A thorough search of a person or place esp by the police (slang)

shaken baby syndrome noun

A collection of symptoms, including brain damage and paralysis, that can occur when an infant is shaken violently by an adult

shakeˈ-out noun

  1. A drastic reorganization or upheaval
  2. A recession in a particular commercial or industrial activity, esp when accompanied by cutbacks in the workforce or closure of individual businesses

shakeˈ-rag noun (obsolete)

A disreputable ragged man

shakeˈ-up noun (informal)

A disturbance or reorganization

shaking palsy noun

A name for Parkinson's disease

great shakes or no great shakes (informal)

Of great account or of no account

shake a leg (often imperative; informal)

To hurry up, get moving

shake down (slang)

  1. To extort money from by threats or blackmail
  2. To search thoroughly
  3. To frisk (a person for weapons, drugs, etc)
  4. To go to bed (esp in a temporary bed)
  5. To settle by shaking
  6. To cheat of money at one stroke

shake hands with

  1. To greet (someone) by clasping his or her hand usu with an up-and-down movement
  2. To seal a bargain, acknowledge an agreement, settle differences, etc, with (someone) in this way

shake or shiver in one's shoes

To be so afraid that one's body, esp one's legs, quiver with fear

shake off

  1. To get rid of, often by shaking (also figurative)
  2. To get away, escape, from (someone or something that is following, pursuing, etc)

shake off (or shake) the dust from one's feet

(see Bible, Matthew 10.14) to leave hurriedly or gladly (lit and figurative)

shake on

To conclude (a bargain, agreement, etc) by shaking hands

shake one's head

To turn one's head from side to side as an indication of reluctance, rejection, denial, disapproval, etc

shake one's sides

To laugh uproariously

shake out

To empty or cause to spread or unfold by shaking

shake up

  1. To rouse, mix, disturb, loosen by shaking
  2. To unnerve or upset
  3. To reorganize (informal)
  4. To upbraid (Shakespeare)

two shakes (of a lamb's tail, etc) (informal)

A very short time
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