Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Having flat sides.
  • adjective Informal Tall and slim; lanky.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having flat sides like slabs; hence, tall and lank. Also slap-sided.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Colloq. U. S. Having flat sides; hence, tall, or long and lank.

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  • adjective having flat sides
  • adjective US, colloquial tall, or long and lank

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Examples

  • As the does got nervous, I looked behind the buck in the brush and 10 yards back there stood a buck whose slab-sided body made the 3x4 look like a yearling!

    What's your ethic? 2009

  • As the does got nervous, I looked behind the buck in the brush and 10 yards back there stood a buck whose slab-sided body made the 3x4 look like a yearling!

    What's your ethic? 2009

  • Buncan blinked at the heavy horse, trying to see into the slab-sided, tarp-covered wagon.

    The Lives of Felix Gunderson Sugu Althomsons 2010

  • His men tugged the weary animals along behind him, through the gap under the arch and along an almost interminable, smelly maze of alleys whose sides were the walls of square stone towers, or sometimes of mud-and-stone-walled compounds, and here and there of sheer, slab-sided cliff.

    In The Time Of Light dj barber 2010

  • There is a wonderful photo of a kid holding a slab-sided black crappie bigger than his face.

    Youth Sports 2008

  • Besides a competitive price, the Suzuki has distinctive sheetmetal: The arcs and swoops on the side view are better looking than slab-sided competitors.

    Suzuki XL-7 Crossover 2008

  • The slab-sided plastic-body-paneled exterior is gone, replaced with something much more stylish.

    Just In: Saturn Vue XR 2007

  • The slab-sided plastic-body-paneled exterior is gone, replaced with something much more stylish.

    Just In: Saturn Vue XR 2007

  • The new model forsakes the plain, slab-sided look of previous Accords, like the 2007 model (top).

    Dressing Up the Bland Sedan 2007

  • This morning in the studio he's drawing on his luxury-car background to help his designers craft a pickup that doesn't have, as one puts it, "that slab-sided Hummer look."

    THE INTERPRETER MOVES IN 2007

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  • Her captain was a slab-sided Quaker, in a suit of brown, with a broad-brimmed hat, bending his long legs as he moved about decks, with his head down, like a sheep, and the men looked more like fishermen and farmers than they did like sailors.

    - Richard Henry Dana Jr., Two Years Before the Mast, ch. 25

    September 9, 2008

  • Slab-sided is a favourite term of Patrick O' Brian, mercurial author of the Aubrey/Maturin series. He employs it regularly to describe an obstinate, slow-witted sailor or an unwieldy and cumbersome vessel.

    December 7, 2008