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long leg

noun

  1. cricket
    1. a fielding position on the leg side near the boundary almost directly behind the batsman's wicket
    2. a fielder in this position
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

She has one long leg in the Top 40 charts and another in the land of twangy vowels.

"It will be a long leg and a short one with her, sir," the skipper said.

The Boy hung one of them up, by its long leg, near the child's head at the side of the bunk, and then conferred with O'Flynn.

Singleton rolled one long leg over the other, luxuriating in Grindley's immensity.

It came from a point that enabled them to make this the long leg, gaining quite a considerable distance.

The big foot at the end of the long leg swung slowly back and forth.

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