Usually means: Workers who break labor strikes.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. blacklegs: Merriam-Webster
  2. blacklegs: Collins English Dictionary
  3. blacklegs: Wiktionary
  4. blacklegs: Dictionary.com
  5. Blacklegs: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  6. blacklegs: TheFreeDictionary.com
  7. blacklegs: Vocabulary.com
  8. blacklegs: Wordnik
  9. blacklegs: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary

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  1. blacklegs: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. blacklegs: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. blacklegs: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wikipedia (Blacklegs)

noun:  (foaled 1728) a British Thoroughbred racehorse and sire who was the champion sire of Great Britain in 1746.


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