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tall⋅boy

  [tawl-boi]
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–noun
1. English Furniture.
a. a chest of drawers supported by a low stand. Compare highboy.
b. a chest-on-chest.
2. a tall chimney pot.
3. a tall-stemmed goblet.
4. (initial capital letter) Military. a 12,000-pound (5400 kg) British bomb of World War II, designed to penetrate the target or plunge deep into the ground before detonating.
Origin:
1670–80; tall + boy
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tall boy  
n.   Slang
A beer can that holds 16 ounces.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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tallboy 
"high glass or goblet," 1676, from tall + boy, though the exact signification is unclear. In ref. to a high chest of drawers it is recorded from 1769, here perhaps a partial loan-transl. of Fr. haut bois, lit. "high wood."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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