tripod

Meanings

Noun

• A three-legged stand or mount.
• A fictional three-legged Martian war machine from H.G. Wells's novel The War of the Worlds (1897).
• A man with macrophallism.

Verb

• To enter the tripod position showing signs of exhaustion or distress.

Origin

• Borrowed from Latin tripūs, from Ancient Greek τρίπους; equivalent to tri- + -pod. tripus.