How to pronounce“hamstring”in English
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Definitions of “hamstring”
One of the great tendons situated in each side of the ham, or space back of the knee, and connected with the muscles of the back of the thigh.
“Lanctot slipped the tourniquet around the other, just under his groin, and twisted it tight, clamping quadriceps and hamstring hard to bone.”
The biceps femoris, semimembranosus, and semitendinosus muscles.
“Developing muscle around both sides of a joint (think biceps and triceps, abs and low back, quads and hamstrings) should be one of your primary training considerations because strength on each side leads to lower injury rates.”
To cripple; to incapacitate; to disable.
“So have they hamstrung the valor of the subject by seeking to effeminate us all at home.”