elephant leg

English

Alternative forms
  • elephant's leg

Noun

elephant leg (countable and uncountable, plural elephant legs)

  1. (humorous, countable) The rotating slab of meat from which slices are carved when making kebabs.
  2. (medicine, obsolete, uncountable) Elephantiasis of the leg.
    • 1833, Sir John Forbes, editor, The cyclopaedia of practical medicine, Elephantiasis Arabum:
      Individuals who enjoy every comfort, and who are not exposed to great vicissitudes of temperature or changes of weather, are as liable to elephant leg as those who endure the hardships and privations of life.
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