slab-sided

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slab-sided (comparative more slab-sided, superlative most slab-sided)

  1. having flat sides
  2. (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."

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