stringbean

stringbean

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

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stringbean

n. a thin person. (Also a term of address.) Who’s the stringbean standing by the punch bowl? Somebody ought to feed him.

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