legit

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
legit /lɪˈdʒɪt/

▶adjective informal legitimate.

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
leg/leɡ/

▶noun

• 1 each of the limbs on which a person or animal walks and stands.

  ■ a leg of an animal or bird as food.

  ■ a part of a garment covering a leg or part of a leg.

  ■ (legs) informal sustained popularity or success: some books have legs, others don't.

• 2 a long, thin support or prop, especially of a chair or table.

• 3 a section or stage of a journey or process.

  ■ (in sport) each of two or more games or stages constituting a round or match.

  ■ Sailing a run made on a single tack.

• 4 a branch of a forked object.

• 5 (also leg side) Cricket the half of the field away from which the batsman's feet are pointed when standing to receive the ball. The opposite of off (sense 1 of the noun).

• 6 archaic an obeisance made by drawing back one leg and bending it while keeping the front leg straight.

▶verb (legs, legging, legged)

• 1 (leg it) Brit. informal travel by foot; walk.

  ■ run away.

• 2 chiefly historical propel (a boat) through a canal tunnel by pushing with one's legs against the tunnel roof or sides.

– phrases
feel (or find) one's legs become able to stand or walk.
get one's leg over Brit. vulgar slang (of a man) have sex.
not have a leg to stand on have no sound justification for one's arguments or actions.
on one's last legs near the end of existence or usefulness.

– derivatives
-legged adjective,
-legger noun.

– origin ME: from ON leggr, of Gmc origin.