slab-sided

adj — 2 senses

slab-sided

adj

1

having flat sides

2

US, Archaic, Colloquial tall, 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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