adj. (colloquial).—Tall; lank; ‘up and down’ in figure: also SLAP-SIDED.

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  1825.  NEAL, Brother Jonathan, ii. Great, long, SLAB-SIDED gawkeys from the country.

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  1841.  E. G. PAIGE (‘Dow, Jr.’), Short Patent Sermons, II. 200 [BARTLETT]. I like to see a small waist … and females with hour-glass shapes suit my fancy better than your Dutch-churn, soap-barrel, SLAB-SIDED sort of figures.

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  1856.  LELAND, The Observations of Mace Sloper, Esq. [The Knickerbocker, xlvii. March, 267]. The real SLAB-SIDED whittler is indigenous to Varmount and New Hampshire.

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  1859.  H. KINGSLEY, Recollections of Geoffry Hamlyn, 353. One of those long-legged, SLAB-SIDED, lean, sunburnt, cabbage-tree-hatted lads.

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  d. 1891.  J. R. LOWELL, Fitz Adam’s Story.

        You did n’ chance to run ag’inst my son,
A long SLAB-SIDED youngster with a gun?

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