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pot belly en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of potbelly.
    alt of potbelly
    • Pot bellies make a man look either oafish, or like a gorilla. But on a woman, a pot belly is very sexy. 2011, James W. Pennebaker, The Secret Life of Pronouns: What Our Words Say About Us, →ISBN:
    • When my dad was about thirty or so, he acquired a huge pot belly, but everything else was quite skinny; legs, arms, etc. 2007, Jeffrey Smith, Mischief Makers, →ISBN, page 57:
    • Little Maggie, though a new victim, already suffered from “marked anemia, pot belly and dry hair.” 2009, Jonathan Daniel Wells, Sheila R. Phipps, Entering the Fray: Gender, Politics, and Culture in the New South, →ISBN:
    • The book shows you a simple and fast way to give yourself a flat, firm stomach — even if other attempts to lose your pot belly failed. 1995 January, “Flatten Your Belly! (Advertisement)”, in Popular Science, volume 246, number 1, page 89:

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pot bellies Number=Plur lexicographic