What does "tallboy" mean?
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.
Tallboy
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Meaning at a glance
- Primary sense: 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.
- Grammar: tallboy is listed as noun.
- Nearest alternatives: highboy, beer can, cabinet, cupboard.
- Useful contrasts: bottle, lowboy, short can.
- Usage evidence: 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.
How to use "tallboy"
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 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.
- 2 An earthquake bomb developed for the British Armed Forces and deployed by the RAF during World War II. countable, historical, uncountable
"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."
- 3 a tall chest of drawers divided into two sections and supported on four legs wordnet
- 4 A tall beer can, either 16 or 24 ounces (473 or 710ml). US
"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."
- 5 A kind of sail, a spanker.
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- 6 A kind of long-stemmed wineglass or cup.
- 7 A long sheet-metal pipe for a chimney top.
Example
"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."
Common questions
What is a synonym for "tallboy"?
Common synonyms include: highboy, beer can, cabinet, cupboard, dresser, highboys.
How do you use "tallboy" in a sentence?
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.
Etymology
By surface analysis, tall + boy, but the furniture sense may have been originally modeled after lowboy, related to French bois (“wood”).