jointedness

Sometimes called the Gymnogene, Polyboroides is a gracile, naked-faced raptor with grey and black plumage, but best known for the so-called double-jointedness present in its intertarsal joints.

Archive 2006-05-01 Darren Naish 2006

Instantly they will grit their teeth and curl their lips, bend their elbows and distort their fingers in ways that could only be achieved through some long forgotten double jointedness gene.

Music and Movement Jonathan 2006

Instantly they will grit their teeth and curl their lips, bend their elbows and distort their fingers in ways that could only be achieved through some long forgotten double jointedness gene.

Archive 2006-02-01 Jonathan 2006

Plus, Honest Abe had Marfan's syndrome, which imparts a certain flexibility and double jointedness beyond the capabilities of regular humans, permitting the method of fish taco mastication so unusually pleasant it drove Mary Todd insane.

"The aura around him is just really nice." Ann Althouse 2008

Althouse seems to have been born with that look, a genetic bonus, like curling the tongue or double jointedness.

Is Randy Barnett giving me the finger? Ann Althouse 2007

I have no clue where I got the following: My (debatable) knowledge of the inner workings of computers, the more morbid, twisted side of my sense of humor, my very VERY questionable sanity, my double-jointedness, my habits of nail-biting, cracking my knuckles and cleaning my teeth obsessively, yet hardly ever brushing them, and other sordid tendencies which I know better than to mention here.

elfpvke Diary Entry elfpvke 2006

He has a weird, multi-directional loose-jointedness that is probably very useful in push-hands competition, but not appropriate to a training session.

Archive 2006-12-01 Holly 2006

He has a weird, multi-directional loose-jointedness that is probably very useful in push-hands competition, but not appropriate to a training session.

ugly tai chi stepbrother Holly 2006

Either one would have been sufficient to establish Le Guin's reputation as a mistress of its genre; both together make one suspect that the writer has the benefit of arcane drugs or creative double-jointedness or ambidexterity.

The Queen of Quinkdom Atwood, Margaret 2002

He submitted to irradiation for the sake of sterilizing the exterior of his flexible air suit (designed to protect men from the deleterious effect of the outer environment, where no pressure differential existed; the strength and jointedness of a true space suit being obviously unnecessary within an atmosphere as thick as Junior's).

The Martian Way Asimov, Isaac, 1920- 1955