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What does knock-kneed mean?

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

Adjective
  1. (of the legs) having the knees abnormally close together, and the ankles spread apart
  2. (of a person or animal) suffering from genu valgum (or tibia valga)
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The group's back catalogue ranges from feel-good ska-punk to knock-kneed New Wave.
Uqsuralik: I myself used to be shy because I was kakivvingajuq, knock-kneed.
Knee ligaments, the anterior cruciate ligament in particular, seem to tear during landing, stopping or cutting in an erect position with straight knee and hip and a knock-kneed position.
Know you, why, you knock-kneed old Siwash, I could pick out your hide in a tanyard!
Some are behemoths in the truest sense of the word, massive as oil tankers, others, small knock-kneed and timorous and as prone to panic attacks as barking deer.
He was spindly, knock-kneed, and rapidly losing his carrot-colored hair.

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