Meaning of coatful | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The amount that a coat can hold.
2. A quantity that is contained within a coat.
3. A quantity that sits on a coat.

Examples

“And here we walk in the house with two coatfuls and armfuls of these bulbs.”

“Instead of using the coat to batter the threat away, he used its length and bulk like a huge net. He cast it out, scooping coatfuls of the fluttering horde out of the air.”

“A coatful of wind is called an admiral.”

“Two Negro women were being held after a patrolman on downtown duty watched them unload coatsful of items into a parked Cadillac.”

“On the outskirts of town, in streetlight like wet straw flung down, off to the side on the corner, a shivering coatful of woes: a man, hunkered down like a pile of dirt, but winter still steps on his toes”

“A few moments like this could make the day a lot more glorious than a coatful of birds ever could.”

“Within easy reach of his right hand lay a coatful of rocks culled from the road-bed, no mean weapons against figures silhouetted by the lamp-lighted windows of the buildings facing the right-of-way; and close to them were half a dozen dynamite cartridges, their wicked black fuses capped and inserted.”

“A girl who thinks nothing of smuggling a coatful of drugs across two national borders whilst escaping a murder scene with the prime suspect.”

“Drowning in the harbour with a coatful of coin, hah!”

“And when Franz Liszt sat down at the piano, sporting shoulder-length hair and a coatful of glittering medals, the ladies threw their jewels onto the stage, battled over his gloves and even his cigar butts, and of course swooned.”

“With this coatful of painful weapons, it is not surprising that a porcupine has few enemies.”

“Besides, how is the Oxford ethos going to cope with Business Studies? It is well-known that even the spikiest scientist, the acned misanthrope with a coatful of ballpoint pens, gets softened and blurred in his first term on an Oxford High Table.”

“The dog with the lame paw emerged now from the river and after limping over to Adriane, shook off a coatful of Ganges water and dropped his stick in front of her.”

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