From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishhamstringham‧string1 /ˈhæmˌstrɪŋ/ noun [countable] HBHa tendon behind your knee, which sometimes gets injured when you do sport He pulled a hamstring in training.hamstring injury/problem/strain etc
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hamstring• Steve Nash is nursing various aches and pains, including a sore hamstring.• Marlon Farlow, who is nursing a sore hamstring, gained 25 yards on four rushes.hamstring injury/problem/strain etc• Much depends on whether Neil Fairbrother is fit following a hamstring strain.• Karros has a hamstring injury that he said is serious and could keep him out for another week.• Danny Wallace is missing with a hamstring injury.• Border regained the Aussie captaincy from opening batsman Mark Taylor after a fortnight's lay-off with a hamstring injury.• Starting quarterback Scott Mitchell was ineffective before leaving in the second quarter with a hamstring injury.• Jett caught only 13 passes and missed most of this exhibition season with a hamstring injury.• He faces a fitness test today on the hamstring strain that has kept him out for two matches.hamstringhamstring2 verb (past tense and past participle hamstrung /-strʌŋ/) [transitive] PROBLEMto make someone unable to take the action they want or need to take, especially by restricting them The president feels he is hamstrung by Congress.→ See Verb tableExamples from the Corpus
hamstring• Excessive regulations tend to hamstring honest businesses.• This might hamstring the government and its operation was sometimes confusing to foreign observers. 