Usually means: Wide at the hips area.
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  1. broad in the beam: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. broad in the beam: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  3. broad in the beam: Wiktionary
  4. broad in the beam: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. broad in the beam: Idioms

Definitions from Wiktionary (broad in the beam)

adjective:  (nautical, of a ship) Wide across the hull.
adjective:  (idiomatic, of a person, especially a female) Wide across the hips, with large buttocks.

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