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slab-sided

[slab-sahy-did]
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adjective Informal.
  1. having the sides long and flat, like slabs.
  2. tall and lank.
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Origin of slab-sided

First recorded in 1810–20
Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2018

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  • Pringle was a slab-sided, beak-faced youth with buttermilk eyes.

    Motor Matt's Mystery

    Stanley R. Matthews

  • The others generally are slab-sided, stoop-shouldered, but withey.

  • And that slab-sided Peters says he saw you turn into the thicket.

    Bolanyo

    Opie Percival Read

  • The male is slab-sided, hook-billed, and distorted, and is rejected by the canners.

  • The sand car slowed down now, as they approached a slab-sided mesa that rose vertically from the desert.

    Planet of the Damned

    Harry Harrison