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Adjective: legit  lu'jit
Usage: informal
  1. Authorized, sanctioned by, or in accordance with law
    "It goes the other way, too, because you're a legit businessman";
    - lawful, legitimate, licit
     
  2. In accordance with recognized or accepted standards or principles
    - legitimate
     
  3. [US, slang] Brilliant; very good
    - socko [N. Amer, informal], righteous [US, slang], fab [Brit, informal], crucial [slang], rad [N. Amer, slang], radical [N. Amer, slang], nang [Brit, slang], phat [slang], awesomesauce [informal], amazeballs [informal], beaut [Austral, NZ, informal], lit [US, slang], storming [Brit, informal], blinding [Brit, slang], stonking [Brit, informal], brill [Brit, informal], wicked [slang], cushty [Brit, informal], ace [informal], def [slang], magic [Brit, slang], smokin' [slang], smoking [slang], super [informal], sick [N. Amer, slang]
Verb: leg it
Usage: informal
  1. Walk
    - foot [informal], hoof [informal], hoof it [informal], ankle [N. Amer, informal]
     
  2. [Brit, informal] Flee; take to one's heels; cut and run
    - scat [informal], run, scarper [Brit, informal], turn tail [informal], lam [N. Amer, informal], run away, hightail it [N. Amer, informal], bunk [informal], head for the hills [informal], take to the woods [informal], escape, fly the coop [informal], break away
Interjection: leg it
Usage: informal
  1. Instruction to go away
    - get stuffed [Brit, informal], avaunt [archaic], beat it [informal], begone [literary], bog off [Brit, informal], bug off [N. Amer, informal], buzz off [informal], get lost [informal], shove off [informal], go away, naff off [Brit, slang], hop it [Brit, informal], be off, scram [informal], get knotted [Brit, informal], run along [informal], sod off [Brit, informal], take a hike [informal]

Derived forms: legging it, legged it, legs it

See also: A1 [informal], ace [informal], A-one [informal], awesome [informal], beezer [UK, archaic], brilliant, constituted, crack [informal], established, excellent, fantabulous [informal], first-class, first-rate, legal, lush [Brit, informal], mean [informal], outstanding, ripping [Brit, informal], splendid, stellar [informal], super, tiptop, top-drawer, topnotch [informal], top-notch [informal], tops [informal]

Type of: go away, go forth, leave, off [informal], walk

Encyclopedia: Legit