Usually means: Awkwardly tall, thin, and uncoordinated.
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  1. gangly: Merriam-Webster
  2. gangly: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. gangly: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. gangly: Collins English Dictionary
  5. gangly: Vocabulary.com
  6. Gangly, gangly: Wordnik
  7. gangly: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. gangly: Wiktionary
  9. gangly: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. gangly: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. gangly: Dictionary.com
  12. gangly: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. gangly: Rhymezone
  14. gangly: FreeDictionary.org
  15. gangly: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. gangly: TheFreeDictionary.com
  17. gangly: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. gangly: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See ganglier as well.)

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adjective:  Tall and thin, especially so as to cause physical awkwardness.

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