love handle
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English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From early 1980s. So called because supposed to be grabbed by a partner in sexual intercourse.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]love handle (plural love handles)
- (colloquial, euphemistic, chiefly in the plural) A protruding area of fat on the side of the body, above the hips.
- 2017 November 16, Jo Ellison, “Help: the gym has turned us into slobs”, in Financial Times[1]:
- The good news. Three weeks into the programme I am rediscovering bits of my body I had forgotten existed; biceps, triceps, hamstrings and those funny muscles on the sides of the abdomen called obliques, the toning of which is supposed to eliminate the love handle.
Synonyms
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[edit]Translations
[edit]protruding area of fat on the side of the body
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See also
[edit]- batwing, excess fat under arms