Usually means: Muscles at back of thigh.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. hamstrings: Merriam-Webster
  2. hamstrings: Collins English Dictionary
  3. hamstrings: Vocabulary.com
  4. Hamstrings, hamstrings: Wordnik
  5. hamstrings: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. hamstrings: Dictionary.com
  7. hamstrings: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  8. Hamstrings: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. hamstrings: TheFreeDictionary.com
  10. hamstrings: Wiktionary

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  1. hamstrings: Legal dictionary

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  1. hamstrings: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. hamstrings: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. hamstrings: Medical dictionary
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Definitions from Wiktionary (hamstring)

noun:  (anatomy) One of the great tendons situated in each side of the ham, or space back of the knee, and connected with the muscles of the back of the thigh.
noun:  (informal) The biceps femoris, semimembranosus, and semitendinosus muscles.
verb:  (transitive) To lame or disable by cutting the tendons of the ham or knee; to hough.
verb:  (transitive, figurative) To cripple; to incapacitate; to disable.
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