shoulderfuls

Noun

shoulderful (plural shoulderfuls or shouldersful)

1. As much as can be carried or worn on one's shoulder.
   • As he walks down the hall to meet a group of businessmen, this corporate secret service uses code ling and the phones' two-way radio feature to head off potential snafus, such as toilet paper trailing from his wing tips and "snow on the mountains" (a shoulderful of dandruff), while he's unaware in...1998, Brandweek - Volume 39, Issues 9-17
2. An amount that reaches as high as the shoulder.
   • Sacramento River flowing circuitously below high crimson banks and a splendid view of America's only volcano (whose last eruption occurred as recently as 1914), rising steeply out of the level valley and hoisting a shoulderful of superb colors against the sky.1939, New Catholic World - Volume 148, page 416
3. As much as a metaphoric shoulder can handle; a personal burden.
   • Gent who was with her had a shoulderful of chips, for no apparent reason.1958, Stewart Sterling, Dead to the World, page 52

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