legs
noun/lɛɡz/
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Beverages, Food, Lifestyle, Oenology, Wine Colloquial Viscous streaks left on the inside of the glass when certain wines are swirled around before tasting.
- Wine enthusiasts cherish the ritual of sniffing and swirling, scrutinizing a wine’s “legs” as they sluice down the sides of the glass, before sipping and looking for a wine’s varietal characteristics.2023 March 24, Laura Reiley, “Could nonalcoholic wine be the toast of the town?”, in The Washington Post:
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Figuratively, Informal The ability of a movie to continue attracting an audience.
- That movie is gonna have legs, I think.
- Derived terms
- have legs, have the legs of someone, land legs, sea legs, VR legs