Loose-coupled

[Johnyxxx]

Hi,

Can anybody explain to me what the author means by loose-coupled?


A woman was standing in the doorway, looking at me without moving. Seeing the bulk of her I wondered how she had managed to come within ten feet of me without making enough sound to attract my attention. She must have weighed all of a hundred and eighty pounds, and her big, loose-coupled body did not look as if it were easy to control.

Edge of Running Water by William Sloane, 1939.


Thanks a lot.

 

[SoothingDave]

Like her body parts were not attached very tightly.

 

[tedmc]

You don't need to have your body parts "attached" unless you are grossly obese and flabby.

 

[probus]

You don't need to have your body parts "attached" unless you are grossly obese and flabby.

That is surely one of the most nonsensical sentences I have ever read.