legless
adjEtymology From Middle English legles, equivalent to leg + -less.
1
Without legs.
- a legless invertebrate
- Above the shield was the well-known Midland crest of a legless wyvern (a wyvern normally has two legs).1956 July, Col. H. C. B. Rogers, “Railway Heraldry”, in Railway Magazine, page 479:
2
Slang Too drunk to stand.
3
Going nowhere.
- That idea was legless.
- Derived terms
- legless lizard, leglessly, leglessness
- Related terms
- have legs