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knock-knee

knock-knee \knock"-knee`\, n. (Med.) A condition in which the knees are bent in so as to touch each other in walking; inknee.

Syn: knock-knees, genu valgum.

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knock-knee

n. (alternative spelling of knock knee English)

WordNet
knock-knee

n. inward slant of the thigh [syn: genu valgum, tibia valga]

Usage examples of "knock-knee".

Brittany stares at her for a moment, and then the youngest of the ultra-rads charges at her, whooping and flailing his arms, and she squeals and runs from him with a knock-kneed gait, floundering up the powdery white slope of a dune with the boy scampering alongside.

To the left Schalke-North with Wilhelmine-Victoria Mine, to the right Wanne without Eickel, past the Emscher marshes Gelsenkirchen stops, and here, which is where the branch line with its rusty rails and weeds was headed, there lies, silenced and half destroyed by bombs beneath an old-fashioned knock-kneed headfrarne, that Pluto Mine which has given Pluto, the black shepherd male, his name.

At the rear it tended towards a slight cow-hocked stance, which in humans was called knock-kneed.