tallboy
tallboy noun: 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.
Noun (1)
tallboy (plural tallboys)
- 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.
- 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.2023 April 25, Amanda Holpuch, Julie Creswell, “2 Executives Are on Leave After Bud Light Promotion With Transgender Influencer”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 19 Mar...
- A kind of sail, a spanker.
- A kind of long-stemmed wineglass or cup.
- A long sheet-metal pipe for a chimney top.
Noun (2) capitalized: Tallboy
Tallboy (countable and uncountable, plural Tallboys)
- 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.2002, Jak P. Mallmann Showell, Hitler's U-boat Bases, page 140
- The 12,000-pound ‘Tallboy’ was another creation from Barnes Wallis, who had long been privately working on the new generation of heavyweight, aerodynamic bombs.[…]Reaching a terminal velocity or 3,700 feet per second, the Tallboy was capable of making a crater that would have taken 5,000 tons of...2009, Leo McKinstry, Lancaster: The Second World War's Greatest Bomber
Forms of tallboy
| plural | tallboys |
|---|---|
| alternative form | tall boy |
| alternative form | tall-boy |
| plural | Tallboys |
Origin of tallboy
By surface analysis, tall + boy, but the furniture sense may have been originally modeled after lowboy, related to French bois (“wood”).
Questions about tallboy
- What does tallboy mean?
- Tallboy means 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.
- What part of speech is tallboy?
- Tallboy is a noun.
- What is the plural of tallboy?
- The plural of tallboy is tallboys.
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