Usually means: Legs curve inward at knees.
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General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. knock-kneed: Merriam-Webster
  2. knock-kneed: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. knock-kneed, knock-kneed: Collins English Dictionary
  4. knock-kneed: Vocabulary.com
  5. knock-kneed: Wordnik
  6. knock-kneed: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. knock-kneed: Wiktionary
  8. Knock-kneed, knock-kneed: Dictionary.com
  9. Knock-kneed: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Knock-kneed: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. knock-kneed: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. knock-kneed: Rhymezone
  13. Knock-kneed: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. knock-kneed: FreeDictionary.org
  15. knock-kneed: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. knock-kneed: TheFreeDictionary.com

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

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (medicine, pathology) Having the knees abnormally close together, and the ankles spread apart.
adjective:  (medicine, pathology) Of a person or animal, suffering from genu valgum (or tibia valga).

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