Definition of "big-shouldered" [big-shouldered]

• Having particularly big or broad shoulders. (adjective)

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• "True, some designers went defiantly, exuberantly over the top — Marc Jacobs most obviously, with his nostalgic, big-shouldered encomium to the 1980s, when the great splurge had begun."
• "Martin Ramin for The Wall Street Journal Popular in the big-shouldered '80s, the double-breasted suit is mounting a comeback."
• "It would be one of those cultural verbal tics that would be annoying, but it would come and then go away, like big-shouldered suits for women."