Usually means: Exaggerated, untrue narrative; often entertaining.
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  1. tall story: Merriam-Webster
  2. tall story: Collins English Dictionary
  3. tall story: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  4. tall story: Wiktionary
  5. Tall Story: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  6. tall story: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. tall story: Legal dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (tall story)

noun:  (idiomatic) Synonym of tall tale (“a tale or story which is fantastic and greatly exaggerated; also, an account of questionable veracity; a lie, an untruth”)

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