hamstrings
Meaning of hamstrings
noun
- One of the great tendons situated in each side of the ham, or space back of the knee, and connected with the muscles of the back of the thigh.
- The biceps femoris, semimembranosus, and semitendinosus muscles.
- To lame or disable by cutting the tendons of the ham or knee; to hough.
- To cripple; to incapacitate; to disable.
Information about hamstrings
- The singular form of hamstrings is: hamstring.
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Hyphenation of hamstrings
ham-strings
- It consists of 2 syllables and 10 chars.
- hamstrings is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
hamstrings synonyms
Meaning :
hams, hock, hough, hox, cripple, disable, incapacitate
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