broad-beamed

English

Alternative forms

• broad across the beam
• broad in the beam

Pronunciation

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Adjective

broad-beamed (comparative more broad-beamed, superlative most broad-beamed)

1. (idiomatic, of a person) Wide across body parts such as the hips.
   • 1969, Philip K. Dick, Ubik, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston: 2012, p 171.

     ' "May I use your phone book? he asked the broad-beamed, middle-aged proprietor. "In the rear," the proprietor said amiably, with a jerk of his heavy thumb.'