hamstring
English
Etymology
From ham (“region back of the knee joint”) + string.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈhæmstɹɪŋ/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -æmstɹɪŋ
Noun
hamstring (plural hamstrings)
- (anatomy) One of the great tendons situated in each side of the ham, or space back of the knee, and connected with the muscles of the back of the thigh.
- 2021 October 20, C. J. Chivers, “Fear on Cape Cod as Sharks Hunt Again”, in The New York Times Magazine[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 February 2022:
- Lanctot slipped the tourniquet around the other, just under his groin, and twisted it tight, clamping quadriceps and hamstring hard to bone.
- (informal) The biceps femoris, semimembranosus, and semitendinosus muscles.
- 2010, Adam Garett, “Fried Hams”, in Reps!, 17:23:
- Developing muscle around both sides of a joint (think biceps and triceps, abs and low back, quads and hamstrings) should be one of your primary training considerations because strength on each side leads to lower injury rates.
Translations
great tendon
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biceps femoris — see biceps femoris
Verb
hamstring (third-person singular simple present hamstrings, present participle hamstringing, simple past and past participle hamstrung or hamstringed)
- (transitive) To lame or disable by cutting the tendons of the ham or knee; to hough.
- (transitive, figurative) To cripple; to incapacitate; to disable. [from 1640s]
- Synonyms: cripple, incapacitate, disable
- 1641 May, John Milton, Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England: And the Causes that hitherto have Hindred it. […], [London]: […] Thomas Vnderhill, →OCLC:
- So have they hamstrung the valor of the subject by seeking to effeminate us all at home.
- 2017 July 17, Martin Lukacs, “Neoliberalism has conned us into fighting climate change as individuals”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian[2], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 31 August 2020:
- Its trademark policies of privatization, deregulation, tax cuts and free trade deals: these have liberated corporations to accumulate enormous profits and treat the atmosphere like a sewage dump, and hamstrung our ability, through the instrument of the state, to plan for our collective welfare.
Hypernyms
Derived terms
Translations
to disable
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Anagrams
Swedish
Etymology
Noun
hamstring c
- hoarding, the act of gathering or hoarding consumables in anticipation of a shortage (like a hamster hides food in its cheeks)
Declension
| nominative | genitive | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | indefinite | hamstring | hamstrings |
| definite | hamstringen | hamstringens | |
| plural | indefinite | — | — |
| definite | — | — |
Related terms
References
- “hamstring”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
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