[ adj ] not having legs <adj.all> a legless man in a wheelchair
Legless \Leg"less\ (l[e^]g"l[e^]s), a. Not having a leg.
The Godot-expecting tramps Vladimir and Estragon are downgraded in Endgame to Hamm's legless, dustbinned 'accursed progenitors', Nagg and Nell, who too have spent happy days in the French countryside, or think they have.
One humorous fellow was too smart by half: he suggested 'legless', on the grounds that it conveyed not only the sense of 'elimbinated' (sic) organisational legs (departments), but also the horizontal state of consultants who have no leg to stand on.
The result can be like trying to even up the legs of a chair so that it will sit firmly on the floor: You take a little off one leg and then a little off another and another until you end up with a legless chair.
After I got the job and received the first script I looked at it and it said I was `a legless derelict panhandler.' "I called the producers and said I wouldn't do that.
Poles, it is well known, like to drink; but they do not celebrate Christmas by getting legless and spewing in the street.