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What does hamstring mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word hamstring? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. (anatomy) One of the great tendons situated in each side of the ham, or space back of the knee, and connected with the muscles of the back of the thigh.
  2. (informal) The biceps femoris muscle.
Verb
  1. (transitive) To lame or disable by cutting the tendons of the ham or knee; to hough.
  2. (transitive, figuratively) To cripple; to incapacitate; to disable. [from 1640s]
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