shoulderfulEtymologyFrom shoulder + -ful.nounAs much as can be carried or worn on one's shoulder.“As he walks down the hall to meet a group of businessmen, this corporate secret service uses code ling and the phones' two-way radio feature to head off potential snafus, such as toilet paper trailing from his wing tips and "snow on the mountains" (a shoulderful of dandruff), while he's unaware in a Mr. Magoo sort of way of the action surrounding him.”An amount that reaches as high as the shoulder.“Sacramento River flowing circuitously below high crimson banks and a splendid view of America's only volcano (whose last eruption occurred as recently as 1914), rising steeply out of the level valley and hoisting a shoulderful of superb colors against the sky.”As much as a metaphoric shoulder can handle; a personal burden.“Gent who was with her had a shoulderful of chips, for no apparent reason.”adjFilled as far as the shoulder (of a container)Having large, muscular shoulders.“Small, dogged, shoulderful, they come headed America-ward.”