stockier; stockiest
: compact, sturdy, and relatively thick in build
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Examples of stocky in a Sentence
That outfit makes you look stocky.
the stocky boxer's strength and speed more than make up for his opponent's longer reach
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Addax are antelopes that are stocky, short and have slender legs, states the Smithsonian.
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Julia Gomez, USA TODAY, 10 May 2024
Every week, Nepali, a strong and stocky forty-one-year-old, hitches animal carcasses to a truck and drags them into a clearing near Chitwan National Park, in the lowlands of Nepal.
—Meera Subramanian, The New Yorker, 31 Jan. 2024
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Julia Gomez, USA TODAY, 10 May 2024
Every week, Nepali, a strong and stocky forty-one-year-old, hitches animal carcasses to a truck and drags them into a clearing near Chitwan National Park, in the lowlands of Nepal.
—Meera Subramanian, The New Yorker, 31 Jan. 2024
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“Stocky.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stocky. Accessed 31 May. 2024.
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