slab-sided
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English
[edit]Adjective
[edit]slab-sided (comparative more slab-sided, superlative most slab-sided)
- having flat sides
- (US, archaic, colloquial) tall, or long and lank
- 1859, James Hungerford, The Old Plantation: And what I Gathered There in an Autumn Month:
- "Oh! Cousin Clarence," he exclaimed, "there is a Yankee peddler here; the longest, lathiest, queerest slab-sided being you ever saw in all your life."
References
[edit]- “slab-sided”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.