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Verb
leg around (third-person singular simple present legs around, present participle legging around, simple past and past participle legged around)
- (archaic, slang) To hang around a person or place to suck up to them, to lobby them or to otherwise get special treatment.
- 1896, Stone (volume 13, page 68)
- We believe the dealer in building material is "legging around" after the architect, contractor and builder, with the same end in view that the publisher of the Clay-Worker has in "legging around" after him to get an order for advertising.