long one

American  

noun

1. Informal. tall one.

2. Slang. a bottle of beer.

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Example Sentences

Spring in Southern California has a certain rhythm: Dodgers fans return to Chavez Ravine, the jacarandas start to bloom, and L.A.’s mayor gives a speech — usually a long one — about how the city is doing.

From Los Angeles Times

The current underperformance streak is a historically long one.

From Barron's

Among the city’s oldest housing projects and long one of its most troubled, the area was one of the founding sites of the LAPD’s heralded Community Safety Partnership, or CSP, program, which prioritizes collaboration between police officers and community members over making arrests in neighborhoods hit by violence.

From Los Angeles Times

"It's where we will inevitably end up. It's what the public and parents want. I don't know what's keeping us so long," one senior government source said.

From BBC

At Kris Kringl, a downtown shop where “it’s Christmas all year long,” one can find Christmas villages, Christmas-themed cuckoo clocks, Christmas-themed cookie jars, Christmas-themed table runners, “Deck the Halls” tea kettles and much more.

From The Wall Street Journal