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axe handle
noun
an imprecise unit of measurement, especially when allied to the breadth of a man’s shoulders or woman’s buttocks US, 1947- He is two axe handles across the shoulders, strong as the bulls of Bashan, and possessed of a temper like Jove’s. — Colin Roderick, Miles Franklin, p. 70, 1982
- — Frederic G. Cassidy, Dicitonary of American Regional English, Volume 1, p. 109, 1985
- If you’re a couple of axehandles across the shoulders with legs like tree trunks and can hand out a good “shirt-fronter”, then, as far as football is concerned, you’re “built like a brick shithouse”. — Ivor Limb, Footy’s No Joke!, p. 12, 1986
- His wife was short and three axe-handles across the arse. — Herb Wharton, Cattle Camp, p. 95, 1994
- — Harry Orsman, A Dictionary of Modern New Zealand Slang, p. 3, 1999
- You have a poochy tummy but want to wear a rhinestone-studded belly tee; your ass – as my Gran used to say – is “six axe handles across” but you crave a pair of low-rise boot-leg distressed snakeskin jeans. — Leslie Carroll, Play Dates, p. 40, 2005
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