flab

[flab]

noun

1. flabby flesh; unwanted fat.

   Daily exercise will get rid of the flab around your waist.

2. the condition of being flabby.

   Most of the new recruits had run to flab in civilian life.

flab

/ flæb /

noun

1. unsightly or unwanted fat on the body; flabbiness

Word History and Origins

Origin of flab¹

First recorded in 1920–25; back formation from flabby

Word History and Origins

Origin of flab¹

C20: back formation from _flabby

Example Sentences

Guy spends his summer transforming his body from flab to fighting trim.

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The series has been described as a political thriller, but it’s got so much flab and filler that it seems ideologically opposed to the very idea of suspense.

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For someone looking to trim some belly flab, downsize their nose or pump up their breasts, the deal was almost too good to turn down.

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Now, the further we get from enactment, the worse the legislation’s extra flab looks.

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And this is why his movies have one of the lowest B.M.I.s in the action business: He cuts the flab.

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