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Definition of Leg it
1. Verb. Walk. "The children leg it to the playground"; "Let's hoof it to the disco"
Language type: Colloquialism
Generic synonyms: Walk
Derivative terms: Foot, Foot, Footer
Definition of Leg it
1. Verb. (intransitive slang) To run away, to flee. ¹
2. Verb. (intransitive slang) To hurry. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Leg It
Literary usage of Leg it
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Anatomy: Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray, Thomas Pickering Pick (1897)
"... and is the most deeply seated of all the muscles in the leg. It commences
above by two pointed processes, separated by an angular interval, ..."
2. Biological Bulletin by Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, Mass.) (1915)
"Group b on each front leg consists of only one pore; on the right middle leg it
has one pore, but on the left middle leg it has two pores; on the right hind ..."
3. An Introduction to Entomology by John Henry Comstock (1920)
"The tibia is the fourth part of 'the leg. It consists of a single segment; and
Fig 68 Lateral aspect *s usually a little more slender than the femur, ..."
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