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tallboy

noun

Etymology

By surface analysis, tall + boy, but the furniture sense may have been originally modeled after lowboy, related to French bois (“wood”).

  1. derived from bois

Definitions

  1. A tall chest of drawers, or combination of chest on chest, or chest with a small wardrobe…

    A tall chest of drawers, or combination of chest on chest, or chest with a small wardrobe on top. Usually with low bracket feet but always resulting in a tall piece of furniture.

  2. A tall beer can, either 16 or 24 ounces (473 or 710ml).

    • In her post, which was less than a minute long, she said that the company had sent her a tallboy can of Bud Light with her face on it. An image of the can was edited into the video.

  3. A kind of sail, a spanker.

  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. A kind of long-stemmed wineglass or cup.

    2. A long sheet-metal pipe for a chimney top.

    3. An earthquake bomb developed for the British Armed Forces and deployed by the RAF during…

      An earthquake bomb developed for the British Armed Forces and deployed by the RAF during World War II.

      • This is understandable inasmuch that the majority of observers were inside the air raid shelters by the time Tallboys started exploding and time delay fuses added even more to the confusion.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA