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: a chest or side table about three feet (one meter) high with drawers and usually with cabriole legs
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Between the steady hum of the refrigerator lowboys and the steam and hiss of Bert's Chili cooking away in what can only be described as an industrial-grade slow cooker, there is, of course, the drip of the coffee maker—a fresh pot never far away.
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Catherine Jessee, Southern Living, 17 Sep. 2024
Sam swung the lowboy (the undercounter refrigerators by our knees) open, frantically looking for more raw fish.
—Fatima Ali, Bon Appétit, 12 Oct. 2022
The warm croquettes are pulled off the salad and the plates of lettuce go back in the lowboy refrigerators to chill.
—Mark Kurlyandchik, Detroit Free Press, 16 Oct. 2017
A letter painting by the late poet and artist Rene Ricard, who was a friend of Nicholas's, hangs above a Queen Anne lowboy in the entry.
—Vicky Lowry, ELLE Decor, 11 Dec. 2015
Movers loaded it only a lowboy trailer and pulled it to ITD headquarters at 3311 W. State. in West Boise.
—Anna Webb, idahostatesman, 23 June 2017
On Thursday, it was carried ceremoniously on the back of a lowboy truck to the semicircular driveway in front of the Atlanta History Center.
—Atlanta Life, ajc, 5 May 2017
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Catherine Jessee, Southern Living, 17 Sep. 2024
Sam swung the lowboy (the undercounter refrigerators by our knees) open, frantically looking for more raw fish.
—Fatima Ali, Bon Appétit, 12 Oct. 2022
The warm croquettes are pulled off the salad and the plates of lettuce go back in the lowboy refrigerators to chill.
—Mark Kurlyandchik, Detroit Free Press, 16 Oct. 2017
A letter painting by the late poet and artist Rene Ricard, who was a friend of Nicholas's, hangs above a Queen Anne lowboy in the entry.
—Vicky Lowry, ELLE Decor, 11 Dec. 2015
Movers loaded it only a lowboy trailer and pulled it to ITD headquarters at 3311 W. State. in West Boise.
—Anna Webb, idahostatesman, 23 June 2017
On Thursday, it was carried ceremoniously on the back of a lowboy truck to the semicircular driveway in front of the Atlanta History Center.
—Atlanta Life, ajc, 5 May 2017
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“Lowboy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lowboy. Accessed 25 May. 2025.
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lowboy
noun
low·boy
ˈlō-ˌbȯi 
: a chest of drawers about three feet (one meter) high with long legs
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