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Hamstring(health)
hamstring(dictionary)
hamstring 1, noun(dictionary)
hamstring 2, verb(dictionary)

hamstring (iou)



hamstring noun & verb. M16.
[from HAM noun1 + STRING noun.]
A. noun. In humans, apes, etc., each of the five tendons at the back of the knee; in quadrupeds, the great tendon at the back of the hock. M16.
B. verb trans. Pa. t. & pple -strung , (now rare) -stringed. Lame or disable (a person or animal) by cutting the hamstrings; fig. destroy the activity or efficiency of. M17.
T. H. White They were crawling along the roads on hands and knees, because they had been hamstrung. A. Storr I know of no creative person who was more hamstrung by his inability to write.