beer gut
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I started to build an image of him in my mind: red hair, freckled, pale skin, a slight beer gut, maybe around 40, single, no kids.
From Salon ● Aug. 13, 2025
He’s a salt-of-the-earth fellow: goateed, burly with a bit of a beer gut, taciturn, with a baseball cap on his head.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 27, 2021
She had described a man as having “a beer gut that belongs in the Smithsonian”; that was changed, she laments, to “protuberant abdomen.”
From New York Times ● Jan. 2, 2020
Balding and with a healthily convex beer gut, Eckhart is almost unrecognizable in the role.
From Time ● Nov. 17, 2016
He’s got a beer gut and a graying mustache.
From "I Am the Messenger" by Markus Zusak
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