Definition of "longlegs" [long•legs]

• A daddy longlegs. (noun)

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• "Not even those daddy longlegs that are supposed to be harmless."
• "He has never been partial to the supports that, like the legs of daddy longlegs spiders, angle out from lower decks to hold them upright while their keels rest on the forest floor, but there was no better way to park a sharp-keeled ship on land."
• "And not to pull the legs off a daddy longlegs or it would rain the next day."