🏢 High in height 🦄 Unbelievable story ⛰️ Very difficult 👖 Longer size

tall

2 5.1

Clothing size with longer measurements for people above average height

noun
/tɔl/

: talla para altos

And did you know Dockers has big and tall pants, shirts and shorts.

Examples

And did you know Dockers has big and tall pants, shirts and shorts, perfect for my big and tall boy.
A couple of days ago, I was in, uh, Women's Big & Tall.

Bad Santa (2003)
What are you, about a fifty in Big and Tall?

Fiction book (1997)
I'm gonna go check out the-- the Big and Tall.

Fat Albert (2004)
They have long body options and for the tall guys, long body and triple XL sizing.
She found a beautiful dress in the Big and Tall section that fit her perfectly.
The store specializes in clothes designed for tall people, offering a wide range of sizes.
He purchased a tall size suit that had longer sleeves and trousers for his height.

Antonyms

petite

3 4.4

A clothing size for women who are short or slim

Idioms

tall in the saddle

Informal

1 8.3

Confident and in control of a situation

to ride tall in the saddle

1 8.2

Feel and act confident

to cut down the tall poppy

Australian

1 9.9

To criticize someone who stands out to make them seem less successful

Compounds

tall tale

Literature

23 4.0

A story that says things are bigger or more amazing than they really are to be funny

tall order

Informal

17 6.9

A task that is very hard to do

tall-grass

1 3.9

Grass that grows tall in wet, rich places

tall story

Informal

1 7.3

A made-up tale that is hard to believe

tall sunflower

1 5.0

A very tall plant with large yellow flowers and edible underground roots

tall-stalked

1 5.3

A plant that has a long stem

tall-growing

1 3.4

A plant that reaches a great height with long thin stems

tall goldenrod

1 7.6

A tall wild plant with many small yellow flowers that grows in fields

tall oat grass

1 7.1

A tall rough grass from Europe and Asia that looks like oats and grows by roads and fields

tall meadow grass

1 6.1

A tall rough grass that grows in meadows and roadsides and is used for hay

tall cupflower

9.9

A small bush from Chile with bluish-white tube-shaped flowers grown in gardens

tall field buttercup

6.8

A tall wild plant with bright yellow spring flowers that can poison farm animals

tall gallberry holly

9.9

An evergreen shrub with white flowers and red berries that animals eat

tall bellflower

8.5

A North American plant with tall stems of blue or white bell-shaped flowers

tall bilberry

8.7

A tall bush from eastern North America that makes sweet blue-black berries used to grow blueberries

tall buttercup

8.3

A wild plant with tall stems and bright yellow flowers

tall crowfoot

9.9

A European wild flower that comes back every year with bright yellow spring flowers

tall mallow

8.4

A tall garden plant with pink-purple flowers that grows back every year

tall white violet

8.6

A tall North American wild flower with heart-shaped leaves and white flowers with purple streaks

tall yellow-eye

Australian

9.9

A tall Australian plant with yellow flowers that comes back each year

tall oil

Specialized

9.6

An oily product left from wood pulp during paper making used to make soap and oils for machines

How Long

tall

2 5.1

regular

11 3.9

petite

3 4.4

Surface Forms

tall singular

talls plural

Etymology

The word tall on clothing comes from the same idea of being 'long' or 'high', so a 'tall' size has longer measurements for people who are taller than average.