Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having but one foot (or leg), a condition sometimes found in human monstrosities.
  • noun A person, animal, or thing that has only one foot (or leg); specifically, a monster with only one foot (or leg).

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Examples

  • Lisa Rinna has also appeared on Dancing With The Stars just like the back-flipping monoped and that Anna Nicole Smith actress.

    Joan Rivers Is The New Facially Immobile Celebrity Apprentice 2007

  • Paul McCartney is still trying to reach a divorce settlement with Heather Mills, the back-flipping monoped who claims that Paul McCartney stabbed her up so much that she needs £10,000 a day from him to cover the cost of tissues she needs to mop up all her abused tears – or something – while Sting has decided to reunite The Police because he's realised that owning seven houses isn't enough for him.

    Paul McCartney Wins Classical Brit, Sting Thankfully Doesn’t 2007

  • Paul McCartney is still trying to reach a divorce settlement with Heather Mills, the back-flipping monoped who claims that Paul McCartney stabbed her up so much that she needs £10,000 a day from him to cover the cost of tissues she needs to mop up all her abused tears – or something – while Sting has decided to reunite The Police because he's realised that owning seven houses isn't enough for him.

    Paul McCartney Wins Classical Brit, Sting Thankfully Doesn’t 2007

  • Prussian, who spoke no English, but divined the crisis, and put an end to it, by bundling the lively monoped into his bed, like a baby, with an authoritative command to "stay put," which received added weight from being delivered in an odd conglomeration of French and German, accompanied by warning wags of a head decorated with a yellow cotton night cap, rendered most imposing by a tassel like a bell-pull.

    Hospital Sketches Louisa May Alcott 1860

  • Gearbox's shoot-and-loot title expands again with New Robot Revolution starring quirky monoped for $10 this September.

    GameSpot's News, Screenshots, Movies, Reviews, Previews, Downloads, and Features 2010

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