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second jointnounThe upper joint of the leg of a fowl, especially when used as food

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second jointnounThe upper joint of the leg of a fowl, especially when used as food
legnounA limb or appendage that an animal uses for support or locomotion on land.
hipnoun(anatomy) The outward-projecting parts of the pelvis and top of the femur and the overlying tissue.
rumpnounThe buttocks.
crotchnounThe ventral area (very bottom) of the human body between where the legs fork from the torso, in the area of the genitals and anus.
buttnoun(countable) The larger or thicker end of something; the blunt end, in distinction from the sharp or narrow end
lapnounThe loose part of a coat; the lower part of a garment that plays loosely; a skirt; an apron.
backnounThe rear of the body, especially the part between the neck and the end of the spine and opposite the chest and belly.
drumsticknounThe second joint of the legbone of a chicken or other fowl, especially as an item of food.
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femurnoun(anatomy) A thighbone.
thighbonenoun(anatomy) The bone that extends from the pelvis to the knee in humans; the femur.
quadricepsnoun(anatomy) A muscle having four heads, especially the large extensor at the front of the thigh.
hamstringnoun(transitive, figurative) To cripple; to incapacitate; to disable.
upper leg
hindquarternounEither rear half of a side of beef, mutton, veal, lamb or by extension from another edible mammal.
roundnoun(physical) Of shape:
coxanoun(anatomy) The basal segment of a limb of various arthropods (insects and spiders, for example).
haunchnoun(anatomy) The area encompassing the upper thigh, hip and buttocks on one side of a human, primate, or quadruped animal, especially one that can sit on its hindquarters.
hamnoun(uncountable) Meat from the thigh and/or buttock of a hog cured for food.

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