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A circle that hit puberty awkwardly, or a square that skipped leg day.
means A shape that's longer in one direction than the other — an elongated rectangle or oval.
from From Latin oblongus, combining ob- (toward) and longus (long) — literally 'tending toward long,' which is exactly what it does.
Coin shapeMany ATM coins and tickets are oblong, not round.
Geometry snubSquares and circles are explicitly never oblong.
Old usageOnce meant landscape-orientation paper or books.