- the hind legs or feet of an animal with four legs are those at the back
- The horse reared up on its hind legs.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryHind is used with these nouns:- end
- leg
- limb
- …
Word Originadjective Middle English: perhaps shortened from Old English behindan, bihindan, from bi ‘by’ + hindan ‘from behind’.Definitions on the go
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Idioms
See hind in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarytalk the hind legs off a donkey
- (informal) to talk too much, especially about things that are boring or not important
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