broad-beamed

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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.'