ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Slab-sided

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Slab-sided is an adjective meaning having flat sides.

Meaning

having flat sides.

More Meanings

  1. (US, archaic, colloquial) tall, or long and lank

Example Sentences

"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."

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include tabular, roundsided, flat-bottomed, wall-sided, plano-convex, flat-topped.

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