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thigh

[thahy] / θaɪ /
NOUN
leg part
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Her piece is a simple lycra zip-up unitard, adorned with tennis ball pockets on either thigh.

From Los Angeles Times • May 11, 2026

Meanwhile, Bayer Leverkusen say defender Jarell Quansah has been ruled out of England's friendlies with a thigh injury.

From BBC • Mar. 22, 2026

“The time has come to get with the dark-meat program. The boneless thigh may be the most perfect piece of meat or poultry imaginable.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026

"The melanoma patient had dozens of metastatic tumors on her leg and foot, and we injected just one tumor up on her thigh," Ravetch says.

From Science Daily • Mar. 16, 2026

This sparked a money-throwing war, which ended when Miles paid for our food, passed the drink carrier and bags to me, and then folded up the ten dollars and wedged it under my thigh.

From "Made You Up" by Francesca Zappia




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