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club foot noun1A deformed foot which is twisted so that the sole cannot be placed flat on the ground. Also called talipes.Lord Byron, Britain's great romantic who was ‘mad, bad and dangerous to know’, was also born with talipes, or a club foot....- His gait studies formed the basis of his clinical work in treating club foot deformities and showed the benefit of measurement in clinical decisions.
- It was nerve-racking when they were checking the scans for spina bifida, club foot and hare lip.
2A woodland toadstool with a greyish-brown cap, pale yellow gills, and a stem with a swollen woolly base, found in both Eurasia and North America.- Clitocybe clavipes, family Tricholomataceae, class Hymenomycetes.
Derivativesclub-footed /ˌklʌbˈfʊtɪd / adjective ...- Byron, an unattractive, club-footed little man who sat up all night eating biscuits and crying, managed to spread the rumour that he was ‘mad, bad and dangerous to know’.
- The central character is a little old club-footed Portuguese grandmother.
- The club-footed pigeon was gone.
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