two-legged

English

Etymology

From two +‎ legged.

Pronunciation

  • (adjective) IPA(key): /tuːˈlɛɡɪd/, /ˈtuːlɛɡd/
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  • IPA(key): (noun) /tuːˈlɛɡɪd/

Adjective

two-legged (not comparable)

  1. Having or furnished with two legs, or leg-like appendages.
    two-legged animals    two-legged shears
    • 1766, James Beattie, “[Miscellany Poems.] The Wolf and Shepherds, a Fable.”, in Poems on Several Subjects. […], new edition, London: […] W. Johnston, […], →OCLC, stanza 3, pages 113–114:
      And that thing made of ſound and ſhovv / VVhich mortals have miſnamed A Beau, / (But in the language of the ſky / Is call'd a tvvolegg'd butterfly) / VVill make your very heartſtrings ake / VVith loud and everlaſting clack, […]

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Noun

two-legged (plural two-leggeds)

  1. 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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