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muffin top en · NOUN

Etymology

From the shape of the top of a muffin (a cupcake), which bulges over the top of its paper container.

Meanings

1. (colloquial, derogatory, figuratively, sometimes) The roll of fat that extends horizontally over the edges of the waistline of tightly fitting trousers.
   • You should certainly aim for shorts tight enough to accomplish two ends: constricting proper blood flow and providing a nice canvas for your muffin-top. 2010, Guido DiErio, Fist Pump: An In-Your-Face Guide to Going Guido, page 133:
   • Finally, I stopped lunging and with my Baby Belly, my Bat Wings, my Muffin Top and my Banana Folds, I rolled up my yoga mat and walked to the door. 2009, Tracy Beckerman, “do you know the muffin top”, in Beth Feldman, editor, See Mom Run: Side-Splitting Essays from the World's Most Harried Blogging Moms, page 38:
   • She hated her flat hair and her muffin top that spilled ever so slightly from her jeans, and she had felt increasingly uninspired at work. 2011, Marissa De Luna, Goa Traffic, page 95:
2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see muffin, top: the top part of a muffin.
   • Kellogg also expanded the brand by introducing pancakes, mini waffles, French toast, and muffin tops. 2011, Sherri Liberman, American Food by the Decades, page 134:

Forms

Relateds

underbutt · cameltoe

Translations (4)

pt pneuzinho (roll of flesh) · fi jenkkakahva (roll of flesh) · fr poignées d'amour (roll of flesh) · pt pneu (roll of flesh)