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Adjective: legless  leg-lus
  1. Not having legs
    "a legless man in a wheelchair"
     
  2. [Brit] Very drunk
    "I had travelling money and got legless in the bar downstairs";
    - besotted [archaic], blind drunk, blotto, crocked [N. Amer], cockeyed, fuddled, loaded [N. Amer], pie-eyed, pixilated, plastered, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soaked, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stiff, tight, wet, bombed, steaming, tanked up, trashed, hammered, wasted, pickled, stonkered [Austral, NZ], juiced [N. Amer], three sheets to the wind, mullered [Brit], lit, swacked [N. Amer], out of it [Brit], blitzed, trolleyed [Brit], bladdered [Brit], paralytic [Brit], stewed, liquored up [N. Amer], stinko, fried [N. Amer], bevvied [Brit], drunk, pixillated, squiffed, half-seas-over [Brit]

See also: drunk, inebriate, inebriated, intoxicated

Antonym: legged

Encyclopedia: Legless