blacklegs

Definition of blacklegsnext
plural of blackleg

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Noun
  • Experts say our feet experience 500-plus pounds of pressure from just standing in any shoe -- high heels, flats or sneakers.
    Tory Johnson, ABC News, 23 Mar. 2026
  • Thousands of runners and walkers laced up their sneakers in downtown Atlanta Saturday morning as the Atlanta Hawks and Atlanta Track Club hosted the annual Hawks Fast Break 5K presented by Sharecare, turning the area around State Farm Arena into a celebration of fitness, community, and team spirit.
    CBS News Atlanta Staff, CBS News, 22 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Of all the former rascals, Symoné has enjoyed the longest and most successful career in entertainment.
    Andrew Walsh, Entertainment Weekly, 30 Jan. 2026
  • In the years since 2004’s Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle, Penn’s carved out a niche embodying big-talking, attention-grabbing rascals who say inappropriate things, then shrug their way through the consequences.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 12 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • City slickers will definitely get a bang for their buck with this place, which is a lot more spacious than a shoebox on the Upper East Side.
    Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 17 Nov. 2025
  • During the Waleses' trip to Canada in October 1991, Diana made time between touring an AIDS hospice and a women's shelter to join William, 9, and Harry, 7, on a visit to Niagara Falls, where the trio donned rain slickers for a wet and wild voyage on the Maid of the Mist.
    Stephanie Sengwe, People.com, 31 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Fields also ran eight QB sneaks in 2025 — a play absent from the Chiefs playbook since Mahomes dislocated his kneecap on a sneak in 2019 — and converted seven of them.
    Sam McDowell, Kansas City Star, 17 Mar. 2026
  • There were sneaks stateside on Saturday which will be rolled into Thursday previews which start at 2PM.
    Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 4 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Streetwise rogues in the mould of an enigmatic leader… there are certainly parallels between Diego Simeone’s Atletico Madrid and Tommy Shelby’s Peaky Blinders.
    Guillermo Rai, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2026
  • Old Eight Eighty—I Among all the rogues in history, no class has been more persistent than counterfeiters, and only thieves have been more numerous.
    David Grann, New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Good afternoon and welcome to Con Con, the convention for swindlers, mountebanks, and the people who love them.
    Henry Alford, New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2025
Noun
  • The 21st century’s obstacles for young men—as seen in deaths of despair and lagging employment—have been amply publicized both by credible journalists and by charlatans such as Fuentes.
    Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 27 Mar. 2026
  • Carl Sagan's baloney detection kit taught us how to separate good science from the work of charlatans.
    Big Think, Big Think, 10 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • At the same time, prey traveling with the wind can easily be detected by the fox.
    Sheryl De Vore, Chicago Tribune, 16 Mar. 2026
  • The fox was at the Bronx Zoo the day after the ship docked.
    Hanna Wickes, Kansas City Star, 13 Mar. 2026
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“Blacklegs.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blacklegs. Accessed 29 Mar. 2026.

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