slab-sided

Meanings

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

having flat sides
USarchaiccolloquialtall, or long and lank
"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."
1859, James Hungerford, The Old Plantation: And what I Gathered There in an Autumn Month

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