Meanings
plural chunksters
- slangA fat person.
I can say as a curvy, chunkster all my life... I learned at a very young age to put on a mask of humor to hide my insecurities.
2022 April 6, Sandi Hall, Sunrise Ponders, Christian Faith Publishing, Inc., →ISBN, →OCLC1 more example
Ordinary people do not leap at the opportunity to be cast as chunksters so fat they cannot even fit through a door. Ordinary people do not leap at the opportunity to deliver lines like, “I know what I am, Lieutenant. I'm a pig. I'm a wild beast.”
1995, Joe Queenan, The Unkindest Cut, Hyperion, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 160
Origin
From chunk + -ster; compare chunky.
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