tallboy

See also: Tallboy

English

Alternative forms

• tall boy, tall-boy

Etymology

Intricately carved Oakley-style tallboy with under cabinet.

Tallboy cans of Killebrew Root Beer.

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

Pronunciation

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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^[1], →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.

See also

• highboy
• lowboy
• carboy