tallboy
/tawl-boi/US // ˈtɔlˌbɔɪ //UK // (ˈtɔːlˌbɔɪ) //
高个子男孩,高个儿男孩,高个男孩,高个子男生
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n.名词 noun
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- : English Furniture. a chest of drawers supported by a low stand.Compare highboy. a chest-on-chest.
- : a tall chimney pot.
- : a tall-stemmed goblet.
- : a 16- or 24-ounce can containing a beverage, especially beer.
- : Military. a 12,000-pound British bomb of World War II, designed to penetrate the target or plunge deep into the ground before detonating.
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Examples
More often than not, these spots were decorated with tallboy Twisted Teas and Bud Lights.
There was no fireplace and no coal-scuttle, so I took off my right boot and put it in the bottom drawer of the tallboy instead.
Facing the window and the sunshine was a facsimile of the tallboy chest which I had coveted so fiercely two hours before.
But next morning, when they were dressing, what does the stranger do but carefully hang his breeches on the knobs of the tallboy!
The tallboy chest was standing alone in its dignity at the top of the broad staircase.
Something more nearly approaching the genuine "tallboy" is shown in the coloured frontispiece.
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