Usually means: Adaptation to movement on water.
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We found 25 dictionaries that define the word sea legs:

General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. sea legs: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. sea legs: Merriam-Webster
  3. sea legs: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. sea legs: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. sea legs: Collins English Dictionary
  6. sea-legs, sea legs: Wordnik
  7. sea legs: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. sea legs: Wiktionary
  9. sea legs: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. sea legs: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. sea legs: Dictionary.com
  12. Sea-Legs, Sea Legs (film), Sea Legs (song), Sea legs: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Sea legs: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. Sea legs: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. sea-legs: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. Sea Legs: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  17. sea legs: FreeDictionary.org
  18. Sea-Legs, sea legs: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sea-Legs: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sea legs: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sea legs: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (sea legs)

noun:  (idiomatic, nautical) The ability, when walking aboard a ship, to anticipate the motion of the deck so as to walk steadily without losing balance.
noun:  (idiomatic) The ability to travel by ship without becoming seasick.
noun:  (chiefly US, rare) Synonym of crabsticks
noun:  (idiomatic) The ability to partially or fully inhabit a marine environment.

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