pot belly

A form of potbelly — A large, protruding, or swollen abdomen; a paunch.

Meanings

nounpot belly (plural pot bellies)

plural pot bellies

  1. alternativeAlternative form of potbelly.

    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
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    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

    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

    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
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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

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