Noun: tallboy
| Singular | tallboy |
| Plural | tallboys |
Sample Sentences
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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. [2023 April 25, Amanda Holpuch, Julie Creswell, “2 Executives Are on Leave After Bud Light Promotion With Transgender Influencer”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 19 Mar 2024:]
Nouns inflected like tallboy
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
By surface analysis, tall + boy, but the furniture sense may have been originally modeled after lowboy, related to French bois (“wood”). See: French Nouns '
bois'.