Definitions

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  • adjective Resembling a giraffe or some aspect of one.

Etymologies

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giraffe +‎ -like

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Examples

  • The Famous Poet was skinny and giraffelike: His neck was preternaturally flexible.

    To Catch a Prince Gillian McKnight 2005

  • The Famous Poet was skinny and giraffelike: His neck was preternaturally flexible.

    To Catch a Prince Gillian McKnight 2005

  • The first paragraph of the article is fascinating:Think Edward Scissorhands, but with bolt drivers and pliers for hands and a giraffelike neck topped with a pair of cameras resembling black cratered eyes instead of the handsome head of Johnny Depp.

    Robot could repair the space telescope 2004

  • The first paragraph of the article is fascinating:Think Edward Scissorhands, but with bolt drivers and pliers for hands and a giraffelike neck topped with a pair of cameras resembling black cratered eyes instead of the handsome head of Johnny Depp.

    Archive 2004-05-01 2004

  • The first paragraph of the article is fascinating:Think Edward Scissorhands, but with bolt drivers and pliers for hands and a giraffelike neck topped with a pair of cameras resembling black cratered eyes instead of the handsome head of Johnny Depp.

    05/01/2004 - 06/01/2004 2004

  • They were soon joined by a hunched-over giraffelike being equipped with two sets of prehensile lips in lieu of hands.

    Jed the Dead Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1997

  • He's tall — seven and a half feet, as giraffelike as an NBA center — and twice as skinny: his slender arms and legs disappear within the dense folds of his long, brightly colored robes.

    A King of Infinite Space Steele, Allen 1997

  • The top five or six levels of scaffolding had already been removed, and more of the girders and pipes were coming down in bundles on lines from giraffelike cranes.

    Space Platform Murray Leinster 1935

  • When the first prehistoric critter sneaks onto the screen, Terra Nova unspools a wondrous Spielbergian moment as a child befriends a giraffelike, 40-foot-tall herbivore.

    Wired Top Stories Hugh Hart 2011

  • The sort of thoughtless hit-and-hopism that a certain unnaturally skinny, unfashionably bucktoothed, comically giraffelike new Sp*rs signing - absolutely thrives on.

    British Blogs 2009

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