_Hardleg_, UD 2006:

[Garson O'Toole]

Cassell's dictionary of slang (2005) by Jonathon Green has hard leg.
The page with the entry is blocked in GB. Here is the extracted text
(which may be inaccurate):

hard leg n. (also hard legs) (US Black)
1 [1940s+] a tough man or boy.
2 [1940s+] a man who devotes all his time and energies to pursuing the
street life and the world of strictly male endeavour - pimping,
HUSTLING n. etc.
3 [1960s+] an ugly woman, esp. an old, worn-out prostitute. The
reference also lists an adjective form with three similar senses.

Urban dictionary has three entries related to hard leg. The first
entry listed below may be a satirical description related to senses 1
and 2 in Cassell's.

Hardleg
A person, usually male, that is always talking about sex. He is always
talking about ass that he does not get, but wants you to think he
does.
Jimmy: hey Jason, did you go home with that girl last night?
Jason(Hardleg): Man, you know i did. We screwed all night. she
couldn't get enough of me.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=hardleg

hard leg
US Army slang for a man, in reference to his member. Often used
plurally to denote a sausage fest.
"Ain't nothin' but a bunch of hard legs and no ass to be found!"
by Mister Priapus Jun 1, 2005
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=hard+leg

hard legs
A term which old timers (my dad) use to refer to a bunch of guys or so
he puts it "niggas".
Well son I didn't wanna get you a 4-door car.
Why not?
Cause I didn't want you to have a bunch of hard legs in the car with ya.
Hard legs??? fuckin old timer...
WHAT YOU SAY BOY?!?!?
nothin nothin
by 313 DeeBoi Mar 6, 2008
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=hard+legs


On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 9:18 AM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
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> At 8:04 AM -0400 6/22/11, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>>Wilson's sense is in HDAS, from 1946 [!].
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> More specifically, 'any man or boy, esp. if tough'. Along with a
> second one for 'an ugly or debauched woman; a hardened prostitute'.
> Two Black English lexicons are cited that converge on the disjunction
> 'any man or an ugly woman'.
>
> Curious.
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>
>>The UD's isn't.
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> Well, if the assumption is that a male person is invariably talking
> about sex...
>
> LH
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>>JL
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>>On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 9:53 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>  "A person, usually male, that is always talking about sex."
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>>>
>>>  Saint Louis ca. 1946-
>>>
>>>  A person, always male. I.e., _hardleg_ was the equivalent of _guy,
>>>  cat, bloke, stud, dude_ or any other word for a random male, except
>>>  that it was restricted in scope of reference to "The person spoken
>>>  of," as the grammatical third person was defined, when I was in the
>>>  fourth grade.
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