yard-long

yard-long
Very long; about a meter long.

She was standing reading a yard-long fax, which she clumsily folded and put down.


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  • yard-long bean — noun Date: 1926 the edible 1 to 3 foot (0.3 to 0.9 meter) long thin stringless pod of a south Asian plant of a subspecies (Vigna unguiculata sesquipedalis) of the cowpea; also the plant …   New Collegiate Dictionary

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