0 an injury caused by someone's knee or foot hitting the upper part of your leg and making the leg go numb (= without feeling):
Mark Batt will play after recovering from a dead leg at Murrayfield.
Another boy was bullying Jacob and he gave him a dead leg, kneeing him in the leg.
The player was stamped on during the match, suffering a dead leg.
She sustained a dead leg last week but was declared fit for Saturday.
