blackleg in English
- blackleg⇄blackleg, noun, verb, -legged,-legging.
- blackleg⇄noun 1. (Informal.) a swindler.
2. (British.) a worker who takes a striker's job; strikebreaker; scab.
3. an infectious, usually fatal disease of cattle and sheep, caused by a bacterium and characterized by gaseous swelling of the muscles, - blackleg⇄v.i. (British.) to act as a blackleg or strikebreaker.
Ex. The International Union of Electricity ... had to accept GE's first and only offer when many of its members blacklegged (Manchester Guardian Weekly).