Definitions

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Having crooked legs, esp. with the knees bent outward.

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Examples

  • An article about photographer Robert Mapplethorpe said he had accepted "the homosexuality he'd tried, as a bowl-legged, tousle-haired Catholic boy from Long Island, to suppress or displace."

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed WARREN CLEMENTS 2010

  • An article about photographer Robert Mapplethorpe said he had accepted "the homosexuality he'd tried, as a bowl-legged, tousle-haired Catholic boy from Long Island, to suppress or displace."

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed WARREN CLEMENTS 2010

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