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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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The PSA report indicated that Filipinos ate only 2.37 kg of ampalaya; eggplant, 4.26 kg; squash, 2.9 kg; cabbage, 1.13 kg; pechay, 1.24 kg; stringbeans, 1.92 kg; and munggo, 0.81 kg.
She recalled selling vegetables with her mother at the town market during her gradeschool days, when classmates would sometimes tease her, calling her 'sitaw' (stringbeans) for being thin.
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Instead of supporting tomatoes or stringbeans, this frame anchored blackened steel cables guyed with expansion joints.
BEST CARBS wholegrain rye bread, oatmeal, apples, apricots, cranberries, strawberries, grapefruit, broccoli, cabbage, spinach, stringbeans, mushrooms, tomatoes, salad leaves
They are smiling stringbeans, lean as opposed to pumped-up, and unmean, as befits the state that gave us Will Rogers.
Probably that, with roasted pork,plantains - a type of banana - ground beef, stringbeans,and all sorts of spices.It's like a layered cake or pie and it's so good.
During the cruise you will enjoy a sumptuous buffet consisting of caesar salad, Maryland crab cakes, roast beef, chicken marsala, linguini in clam sauce, potatoes, stringbeans almondine, fresh-baked rolls, and cheesecake for dessert.
There were also the vendors who settled in selected strategic spots in the neighborhoods shouting their rhymed praises of their goods -- "stork's eggs" (beidh el-laglag), a large, colorful sweet that melts at a mere touch of the tongue); sugared sesame-seeds pancake (sumsumiyya); boiled salted chickpeas (lablabi); fried dumplings, a kind of papiserie (kahi), boiled turnips (shalgham), stringbeans, broadbeans, bride's fingers, and fresh and dried fruits of all provenance.
"I said to Mel recently: 'Do you realise I was a great big hunk of beef when we met?' and he said: 'I loved you then and I love you now - it makes no difference to me what size you are.' That was wonderful and I don't think men really want stringbeans, but I'm enjoying being slim.
Fried chicken, greens, candied yams, roast beef, slaw, potato salad, macaroni and cheese, ham, stringbeans, yellow squash, smothered turkey wings, custard pie--
In fact, I'd never seen the likes of any of these plants, having grown up in the suburbs and spent my gardening time hoeing rows of stringbeans to feed our family.
Because his personal life seems to have been a bit of a train wreck, I think of him more as a hatcheck girl's swain, yet he knew how to let the sangfroid sing from some of these faces, or simple good rolling-stone mischief, while doing justice to the ragged stringbeans, ranked in another line.