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blackleg

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8 lettersPart of speech verb, nounSorted abcegkllStarts with BEnds with G0 clues
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Definitions

  1. take the place of work of someone on strike

Word origin

From black + leg.

Used in a sentence

  • [H]ere, then, was a community of good taste and kind feeling, no sharpers, no black-legs, no wolves in sheep's clothing.
  • [Y]our friend Bloundell-Bloundell is a professional blackleg, and travels the Continent, where he picks up young gentlemen of fashion and fleeces them.
  • They have no regard for respectability like yours — nothing between a baron and a blackleg.

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