broad-beamed

adj

broad-beamed

adj

1

Idiomatic, Of a person Wide across body parts such as the hips.

1969, Philip K. Dick, Ubik, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston: 2012, p 171. ' "May I use your phone book? he asked the broad-beamed, middle-aged proprietor. "In the rear," the proprietor said amiably, with a jerk of his heavy thumb.'

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