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wide-body

Pronunciation: /ˈwʌɪdbɒdi/

Definition of wide-body

adjective

(also wide-bodied /-ɪd/)
  • 1(of a large jet airliner) having a wide fuselage.
  • 2chiefly US (of a tennis racket) having a wide head.

noun (plural wide-bodies)

  • 1a large jet airliner with a wide fuselage.
  • 2US a tennis racket with a wide head.
  • 3US informal a large, heavily built person, especially one who plays a team sport: he is a powerful widebody (310 pounds) with limited athletic ability

wide-body in other Oxford dictionaries

Definition of wide-body in the US English dictionary