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slab-sided
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synonyms: spindle-shanked, ~tall drink of water, ~long streak of piss ???
tags: [rare] [slang]
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Definition:Having flat sides; hence, tall, or long and lank.Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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"Besides all, he had an overseer,—great, tall, slab-sided, two-fisted renegade son of Vermont—(begging your pardon),—who had gone through a regular apprenticeship in hardness and brutality and taken his degree to be admitted to practice.
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