beer belly
Americannoun
noun
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Etymology
Origin of beer belly
First recorded in 1915–20
Example Sentences
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"I do have a bit of a beer belly, but that's not by drinking beer. I've been on one of the medications, which is a steroid," he says.
From BBC ● Feb. 17, 2023
Just last week, he mocked Bill Gates’s beer belly after the Microsoft co-founder was said to have bet against Tesla’s stock price.
From New York Times ● Apr. 26, 2022
Not that Miller has a paunch or beer belly, mind you.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 30, 2021
It’s very, very easy to succumb to the funny memes—the Axe body spray, beer belly putsch.
From Slate ● Jan. 11, 2021
He was mostly skinny, which made his enormous beer belly even more alarming.
From "Shadowshaper" by Daniel José Older
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