long bill—
1. a written statement containing a great number of items:
- She listed a long bill of particulars from James’s legal response to the court.
2. a bill in which the charges are excessive:
- We had to wait a long time for a poor dinner, and pay a long bill for it when it came.
3. (Finance) a bill of exchange that runs for more than 30 and often more than 60 days:
- The fluctuations in long bills are co-extensive with the fluctuations in the value of money.
4. a bird with a long bill (such as a snipe or a woodcock):
- We always had flushed a few “long bills” from the wet swales.
longbill — = long bill 4:
- The bird footprints seem to be from a distant ancestor of modern birds such as ducks, plovers, and longbills.