Usually means: Wish for theatrical good luck.
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We found 19 dictionaries that define the word break a leg:

General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. break a leg: Merriam-Webster
  2. break a leg: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Break-A-Leg: Wordnik
  4. break a leg: Wiktionary
  5. break a leg: Dictionary.com
  6. Break a Leg (sitcom), Break a leg (disambiguation), Break a leg: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. Break a leg: ESL Idiom Page
  8. Break a Leg: The Word Detective
  9. break a leg: TheFreeDictionary.com
  10. Break a leg: World Wide Words
  11. Break a leg: Phrase Finder
  12. break a leg: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. break a leg: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Break a leg: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. break a leg: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. break-a-leg: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wikipedia (Break a leg)

▸ noun:  "Break a leg" is an English-language idiom used in the context of theatre or other performing arts to wish a performer "good luck".
▸ noun:  a well-known idiom in theatre which means "good luck".


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