Jabba the Hutt

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