Legit
[luh-jit] /ləˈdʒɪt/ Informal.
adjective
1.
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2.
(of a singing voice) trained in a classical or operatic tradition.
3.
having such a singing voice.
4.
being a singer with such a voice.
noun
5.
the theater or stage.
/lɪˈdʒɪt/
adjective
1.
short for legitimate
noun
2.
legitimate or professionally respectable drama
colloquial shortening of legitimate, 1897, originally in theater, in reference to legitimate drama, that which has literary merit (Shakespeare, etc.).
modifier
: jokes about the heroine’s harmless male roommate, leather men, etc/becomes part of the leather-bar homosexual underworld/the sex clubs and leather bars of the gay ghetto
noun
Related Terms
heavy leather, hell-for-leather
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