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thigh

[thahy] / θaɪ /
NOUN
leg part
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He played for Madrid in the Club World Cup, but his first full season has been hampered by hamstring and thigh injuries while Xabi Alonso, the manager who signed him has been sacked.

From BBC • Mar. 20, 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

Chicken cutlet starts with either a boneless chicken thigh or a boneless chicken breast that’s covered with cling wrap and pounded to even thickness.

From Salon • Feb. 26, 2026

These she alternately chewed and rolled between the palm of her hand and her thigh.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer