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• s  tall and thin and having long slender limbs
  a gangling teenager
• s  tall and thin

• Van Cliburn is a gangling (6 ft.
• The shattered bones of the gangling creature stretched 26 feet; projecting from the body were four chipped, broken appendages.
• Some, including a new magazine in Asia named PTI, pondered whether the "gangling, spectacled" teenager could survive the deadly intrigues of a fabled and faraway Oriental land.

• gangly
• lanky
• rangy

Quotes

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• Jermaine Gresham in International Herald Tribune
  I thought it was a gangling deer got hit by a car or something,Gresham said. "All I saw was his legs go in the air."
• Michael Atherton in Sportinglife.co.za
  He was a fairly gangling bowler when he first came through,Atherton told Sky Sports News. "He had back problems, we didn't really see him bowl because he was injured at that stage as well. His batting wa a bit hit and miss. So what he's...