tallboy

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  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. 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.
  3. A kind of sail, a spanker.
  4. A kind of long-stemmed wineglass or cup.
  5. A long sheet-metal pipe for a chimney top.

词形变化

tallboys plural tall boy alternative tall-boy alternative

词汇关系

相关词
highboy lowboy carboy

词源

By surface analysis, tall + boy, but the furniture sense may have been originally modeled after lowboy, related to French bois (“wood”).
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