string bean

slang A very skinny or lanky person. Can be used as a term of address. I was such a string bean as a kid that all my clothes draped off me. Why don't you take a bit more food, string bean? You could stand to put a little meat on them bones!

See also: bean, string

See also:

stringbean
be a string bean
look like a string bean
(as) skinny as a rail
be (as) skinny as a rail
(as) skinny as a stick
be (as) skinny as a stick
(as) skinny as a pole
be (as) skinny as a pole
be (as) skinny as a rake

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