big-shouldered love

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  • adjective having unusually large shoulders.

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  • adjective Having particularly big or broad shoulders.

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  • adjective having broad shoulders

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Examples

  • Martin Ramin for The Wall Street Journal Popular in the big-shouldered '80s, the double-breasted suit is mounting a comeback.

    A More Suitable You Ray A. Smith 2011

  • True, some designers went defiantly, exuberantly over the top — Marc Jacobs most obviously, with his nostalgic, big-shouldered encomium to the 1980s, when the great splurge had begun.

    Fashion in Dark Times 2009

  • It would be one of those cultural verbal tics that would be annoying, but it would come and then go away, like big-shouldered suits for women.

    The mountain lion called. She wants her name back. « Dating Jesus 2009

  • True, some designers went defiantly, exuberantly over the top — Marc Jacobs most obviously, with his nostalgic, big-shouldered encomium to the 1980s, when the great splurge had begun.

    Fashion in Dark Times 2009

  • True, some designers went defiantly, exuberantly over the top — Marc Jacobs most obviously, with his nostalgic, big-shouldered encomium to the 1980s, when the great splurge had begun.

    Fashion in Dark Times 2009

  • It would be one of those cultural verbal tics that would be annoying, but it would come and then go away, like big-shouldered suits for women.

    23 « October « 2009 « Dating Jesus 2009

  • The four year old stayed close to his father's legs, intimidated by the big-shouldered men with neck muscles that began flaring just below their ears.

    Michael Jones: Winter's Bone 2010

  •  He is a short, big-shouldered man, as wide as he is tall.

    The City of Lights 2010

  • Ezra called them “the twins” somewhat sardonically, given that Leo was big-shouldered and dark and over six feet tall.

    Come Again No More Jack Todd 2010

  • As for Bullock, she rises to the challenge of her role with big-shouldered, brassy aplomb, clearly relishing the chance to flex her muscles and demonstrate her true dramatic weight.

    Mark Kermode's DVD round-up 2010

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