Meaning of shoulderful | Babel Free

Definitions

1. As much as can be carried or worn on one's shoulder.
2. An amount that reaches as high as the shoulder.
3. As much as a metaphoric shoulder can handle; a personal burden.

Examples

“As he walks down the hall to meet a group of businessmen, this corporate secret service uses code ling and the phones' two-way radio feature to head off potential snafus, such as toilet paper trailing from his wing tips and "snow on the mountains" (a shoulderful of dandruff), while he's unaware in a Mr. Magoo sort of way of the action surrounding him.”

“Before I could give him a brisk lecture about how making an effort for an hour could help his career no end, a large man with two shouldersful of bags hoved into view.”

“He could get a shoulderful of one-by-sixes off the lumber pile and carry them up to the cabin site.”

“She hefted two small packages, sighed with disgust, and shifted the lot in her arms, finding room for another shoulderful.”

“With a shoulderful of medals, he returns home after nine years, ready to put down his guns and find some kind of normalcy.”

“Don't travel on it then, she was told in the boarding house, or you'll find yourself jammed in, breathing shoulderfuls of damp tweed.”

“Sacramento River flowing circuitously below high crimson banks and a splendid view of America's only volcano (whose last eruption occurred as recently as 1914), rising steeply out of the level valley and hoisting a shoulderful of superb colors against the sky.”

“Gent who was with her had a shoulderful of chips, for no apparent reason.”

“The new regime allowed for an incredible latitude of flexibility but also an equal shoulderful of additional responsibility.”

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