Definition of "blacklegs" [blacklegs]

• Plural form of blackleg. (noun)

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• "'Whom, when we sporting gentlemen are absent, you call blacklegs, rooks, Grecians, and other pleasant epithets."
• "He had promised that if the men wanted a struggle he would put up the best fight they had ever had, and he had been active all that afternoon in meeting the quarrel half way, and preparing as conspicuously as possible for the scratch force of "blacklegs" -- as we called them -- who were, he said and we believed, to replace the strikers in his pits."
• "The insurgents refer contemptuously to the ISI as "blacklegs," for their supposedly darker skin."