four-legged

alternative fourlegged

1. not comparableHaving four legs.

plural four-leggeds · alternative fourlegged

1. An animal that has four legs.

   The four-leggeds blamed the cleansing on the humans, and decided to destroy all two-leggeds.

   2000, Clyde Holler, The Black Elk Reader, →ISBN, page 195

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   We were talking about how Catolicos seemed to not see the one-leggeds and four-leggeds as sacred.

   2011, Cynthia Dawn, Indigena: A Novel Celebrating the Spirit of Cinco De Mayo, →ISBN, page 113

   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.

   2013, Vine Deloria Jr., edited by James Treat, For This Land: Writings on Religion in America, →ISBN, page 238

   Synonyms: quadruped, tetrapod

2. An intersection where two roads cross.

   With respect to hazard rating, an opposite and possibly inconsistent explanation might be offered: It may be that drivers underestimate roadside hazards at three-leggeds and relatively speaking overestimate them at four-leggeds.

   1998, Accident Models for Two-lane Rural Roads: Segments and Intersections