Usually means: Legs curved outward from knees.
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We found 21 dictionaries that define the word bowleg:

General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. bowleg: Merriam-Webster
  2. bowleg: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. bowleg: Vocabulary.com
  4. bowleg: Wordnik
  5. bowleg: Wiktionary
  6. bowleg: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. bowleg: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  8. bowleg: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. bowleg: Dictionary.com
  10. Bowleg: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Bowleg: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. bowleg: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. bowleg: Rhymezone
  14. Bowleg: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. bowleg: FreeDictionary.org
  16. bowleg: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. bowleg: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Bowleg (disambiguation), bowleg: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. bowleg: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. bowleg: Medical dictionary

(Note: See bowlegged as well.)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (bowleg)

▸ noun:  A leg that curves outward at the knee. It might refer to the leg of a human, animal or even a piece of furniture.

Similar:
bandy-legged, bowed, genu varum, unfit, tibia vara, saberleg, saber leg, sabre leg, sabreleg, factory leg, more...

Opposite:
knock-kneed, genu valgum, varus

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Similar:
bandy-legged, bowed, genu varum, unfit, tibia vara, saberleg, saber leg, sabre leg, sabreleg, factory leg, more...

Opposite:
knock-kneed, genu valgum, varus



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