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tallboy.

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.

7 characters2 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun
  1. 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.

  2. A tall beer can, either 16 or 24 ounces (473 or 710ml).

    US
  3. 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.

Where this word comes from

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

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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.