Usually means: Extremely strong, robust, and hefty.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. burliest: Merriam-Webster
  2. burliest: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. burliest: Collins English Dictionary
  4. burliest: Vocabulary.com
  5. burliest: TheFreeDictionary.com
  6. burliest: Wordnik
  7. burliest: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. burliest: Wiktionary
  9. burliest: Dictionary.com
  10. burliest: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. burliest: Legal dictionary

(Note: See burly as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (burly)

adjective:  (usually of a man) Large, well-built, and muscular.
adjective:  (British, East End of London, slang) Great, amazing, unbelievable.
adjective:  (US, slang, surf culture and/or Southern California) Of large magnitude, either good or bad, and sometimes both.
adjective:  Full of burls or knots; knotty.
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