tallboy

See also: Tallboy

English

Alternative forms
  • tall boy, tall-boy

Etymology

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

Noun

tallboy (plural tallboys)

  1. (furniture) 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.
    Hyponym: highboy
    Coordinate term: (without the wardrobe) lowboy
  2. (US) A tall beer can, either 16 or 24 ounces (473 or 710ml).
    • 2023 April 25, Amanda Holpuch, Julie Creswell, “2 Executives Are on Leave After Bud Light Promotion With Transgender Influencer”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:
      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. (nautical) 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.
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