Meanings
- humorousnot comparableslangvulgarHaving a large penis.
Synonyms: black where it counts, horse-hung, hung like a bull, hung like a horse, hung like a donkey, meat for days, meat for the poor, macrophallic
plural three-leggeds
- Something with three legs.
My father said that three-leggeds are more detestable than four-leggeds.
1999, Cheng Ch'ing-wen, Three-Legged Horse, →ISBN, page 1591 more example
The three-leggeds had everyone in stitches. Some pairs simply could not learn to run together — just impossible.
1983, Trevor Shearston, Sticks That Kill: A Novel, page 447 - An intersection where three roads meet.
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
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveHaving three legs.
adjectiveHaving a large penis.
More synonyms by meaning
adjectivehaving or as if having three legs
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
Ancient Greek τρίπους
- τρίπους (trípous)having three legs
Danish trebenet
- trebenethaving three legs
Dutch driebenig
- driebenighaving three legs
Esperanto trigamba, penisego
- trigambahaving three legs
- penisegohaving a large penis
Finnish kolmijalkainen, isomunainen
- kolmijalkainenhaving three legs
- isomunainenhaving a large penis
German dreibeinig
- dreibeinighaving three legs
Hungarian háromlábú
- háromlábúhaving three legs
Irish tríchosach
- tríchosachhaving three legs
Polish trójnogi
- trójnogihaving three legs
Russian трёхно́гий
- трёхно́гий (trjoxnógij)having three legs
Swedish trebent
- trebenthaving three legs
Welsh teircoes
- teircoeshaving three legs
Cite this entry
three-legged. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/three-legged
“three-legged.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/three-legged. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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