Jabba the Hutt

noun

Something very large or bloated; a fat person.

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nounJabba the Hutt (plural Jabba the Hutts)

plural Jabba the Hutts · alternative Jabba the Hut

  1. attributiveinformalsometimesSomething very large or bloated; a fat person.

    It may be painful to remember that the latter day Elvis, he of the Las Vegas leer, became a besequined Jabba the Hutt, a virtual caricature of himself.

    1992 February 26, “Which Elvis goes on stamp”, in The Milwaukee Sentinel
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    He nods in the direction of our client, Vince Russo, an oily-looking man about Joel's age who has jammed his Jabba the Hutt torso into the chair at the table next to Holmes.

    2000, Sheldon Siegel, Special Circumstances, Bantam, published 2001, →ISBN, page 11

    In small towns that merely want a fire station out of this Jabba the Hutt of a stimulus package, that's about as much as they can ever hope for insofar as a return on the dollars their local taxpayers send to Washington, D.C.

    2009 February 9, “The downside of a federal stimulus package gone local”, in Peoria Journal Star

    Synonyms: Jabba

Synonyms & antonyms

nounSomething very large or bloated; a fat person.

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Origin

After the character Jabba the Hutt, a large, sluglike alien crime lord in the Star Wars film saga.

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Jabba the Hutt. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Jabba%20the%20Hutt

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