deadleg

deadleg
I. n
British
1.
a feeble, lazy or disappointing person.
This word has been used from the 1950s and may derive from an earlier armed-forces term 'deadlegs', meaning a cripple or someone who refuses to rise from bed.
► 'The usual crowd of airheads, phonies, deadlegs, posers, bimbos, wallies, wan-nabees, hangers-on and gatecrashers.' (Christena Appleyard, DailyMirror, 11 May 1989)
2.
a numb feeling in the leg following a kneeing in the thigh by an attacker
II. vb
British
the action of kneeing someone in the thigh. A popular school playground tac-tic.

Contemporary slang . 2014.

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