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long drinks of water

long drinks of water is the plural of long drink of water.

Meaning of long drink of water

Noun

long drink of water (plural long drinks of water)

  1. (Scotland, US, slang) A tall person.
    • Stair had grown up into a great lang drink, and would faukled, as Robin Cummell said, if he fell.[1887, John Service, chapter XVI, in The Life and Recollections of Doctor Duguid of Kilwinning. Written by Himself, and Now First Printed from the Recovered Manuscript, Edinburgh: Young J. Pentland...

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What is long drinks of water the plural of?
Long drinks of water is the plural of long drink of water.

Words near long drinks of water in the dictionary

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