ankle meaning

• Noun: ankle  angkul
  1. A gliding joint between the distal ends of the tibia and fibula and the proximal end of the talus
     - ankle joint, mortise joint, articulatio talocruralis

  Derived forms: ankles

  See also: anklet

  Type of: articulatio plana, gliding joint

  Part of: leg

  Encyclopedia: Ankle

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  [American slang]
  n. an attractive woman or girl. (Typically with some.)
  • Now, there's some ankle I've never seen around here before.
  • Do you get ankle like that around here all the time?
  
  
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  [Medicine]
  The region of the lower limb between the FOOT and the LEG. n
  1
  a : the joint between the foot and the leg that constitutes in humans a ginglymus joint between the tibia and fibula above and the talus below —called also ankle joint
  b : the region of the ankle joint
  2 : the joint between the cannon bone and pastern (as in the horse)
  

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Examples

1. he's never had swelling of the ankles.
2. her dress reached down to her ankles.
3. lucy saw that his ankle was swollen like a balloon.
4. he sprained his ankle and had to be helped home.
5. it bags around the ankles.