long-armed
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- adjective
- /lɔŋ ɑrmd/
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de brazos largos
- He is a tall, long-armed player who excels at catching difficult passes.
Examples
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Max was six-four, long-armed, long-legged; his huge hands were delicate, and his tapering long fingers were sparsely stroked with black hair.
Fiction book (1995) -
There was a guy that doing a Reed Richards where he built two extra long arms and he would put his hands in it and control them.
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"He's a long-armed basketball player who can get his hands on balls and really pass.
Blog text (11) -
There are long-armed stoppers, young and old, waiting to clean things up on defense, but with Ersan Ilyasova entrenched as a floor-stretching power forward, the minutes competition among the bigs will be tough.
Blog text (27) -
The artist created a sculpture featuring a long-armed figure reaching toward the sky.
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The long-armed ape swung effortlessly from branch to branch in the trees.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Long-armed is made from long and arm and simply means 'with long arms'. Think of a basketball player or an orangutan whose long reach helps them grab things, so long-armed means having arms that are long compared to the rest of the body.