What is "longlegs"

Usage examples of "longlegs".

Across the aisle, the giant daddy longlegs was quietly climbing the wall.

Above them, like a broken umbrella in a high wind, the daddy longlegs whirled off, looking for a dark place to hide.

He was delighted, on the other hand, by a woman relating the story of her daughter running into the parlor after finding a daddy longlegs on her pillow.

At least a dozen daddy longlegs were arranged along the bottom of the cool porcelain tub, quiet, quivering when the light blared on and her shadow fell.

Around me, shadows deepened and the daddy longlegs began to tiptoe down the walls, restless at my intrusion.

I raked the area with the beam of my flashlight and was treated to the bouncing of daddy longlegs as they warned me away.

And the next day it was daddy longlegs spiders in the bathtub instead of June bugs in the kitchen window.

If I talk to him in the passage at Corinium, he scuttles off like a daddy longlegs.

Earlier, looking up toward the ridge they'd have to reach, they'd seen something that might have been an immense spider, a cross between a daddy longlegs and a tarantula.

Starling watched a daddy longlegs hide in the drain of the vacant autopsy table.

Her daddy longlegs fingers began to prance across another of those gray fetish things.

He had the physical build of the type of spider called a granddaddy longlegs, and he was all bone and whipcord sinew.

A granddaddy longlegs was making a futile journey down from the ceiling, spinning as it went.

That way, if our lip-lock was of the daddy longlegs variety—a la Scotty in eighth grade—I could just pretend it had never happened when he called and called and called me all summer long.