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Love handle

noun, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    A protruding area of fat on the side of the body, above the hips. colloquial, euphemistic, in-plural

    "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."

  2. 2
    excess fat around the waistline wordnet

Etymology

First appears c. 1970 in the publication Current Slang. So called because it is supposed to be grabbed by a partner during sexual intercourse.

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