Usually means: Cricket rule: ball hits leg.
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We found 11 dictionaries that define the word leg before wicket:

General (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. leg before wicket: Merriam-Webster
  2. leg before wicket: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. leg before wicket: Collins English Dictionary
  4. leg before wicket: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. leg before wicket: Wiktionary
  6. Leg before wicket: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. leg before wicket: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Leg before wicket (LBW), leg before wicket: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Leg before wicket: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. leg before wicket: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Leg-before-wicket: Sports Definitions

Definitions from Wiktionary (leg before wicket)

adverb:  (cricket) Describing the way of getting out in which the ball would have hit the batsman's wicket, but hits the batsman's legs or more rarely another part of the batsman's body without first hitting the bat or a hand holding the bat.
noun:  (cricket) An instance of a batsman being out due to the leg before wicket law.

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