Definitions for tallboy

tallboy tall·boy

Spelling: [tawl-boi]
IPA: /ˈtɔlˌbɔɪ/

Tallboy is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 121 anagrams from letters in tallboy (ablloty).

Definitions for tallboy

noun

  1. English Furniture. a chest of drawers supported by a low stand. Compare highboy. 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 of tallboy

First recorded in 1670-80; tall + boy

Examples for tallboy

By easy stages we arrive at the tallboy pure and simple, sometimes called "double chest" or "chest on chest."

The tallboy was purely the outcome of a demand for something more commodious than the early form.

But next morning, when they were dressing, what does the stranger do but carefully hang his breeches on the knobs of the tallboy!

Something more nearly approaching the genuine "tallboy" is shown in the coloured frontispiece.

There was no fireplace and no coal-scuttle, so I took off my right boot and put it in the bottom drawer of the tallboy instead.

Facing the window and the sunshine was a facsimile of the tallboy chest which I had coveted so fiercely two hours before.

The tallboy chest was standing alone in its dignity at the top of the broad staircase.

Word Value for tallboy
Scrable

12

Words with friends

14

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