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hollow leg

noun

  1. an ability or inclination to drink large quantities of alcoholic beverages, especially without evident drunkenness.



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Think I’m pulling your hollow leg?

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The hollow leg of a papier-mâché stegosaurus might be the weirdest place a body has ever been found, but it's not the only bizarre location from the annals of crime and misadventure.

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The father then saw the corpse through a crack in the Stegosaurus' hollow leg.

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“They say I’ve got a hollow leg,” Styx reported around a mouthful of chips.

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Instead of my legendary big appetite and “hollow leg” – a running joke in my family – I picked at my food, looking more like a scarecrow with each passing week.

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