flab

[flab]

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noun

flabby flesh; unwanted fat: Daily exercise will get rid of the flab around your waist.

the condition of being flabby: Most of the new recruits had run to flab in civilian life.

Origin of flab

First recorded in 1920–25; back formation from flabby

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Related Words for flab

flesh, grease, lard, bluff, hood, shade, blindfold, surplus, overabundance, plethora, paunch, fatness, bulk, superfluity, tallow, corpulence, blubber, obesity, overflow, excess

Examples from the Web for flab

Contemporary Examples of flab

The flab that you actually want to lose is fat, and that will only come off to the extent that you cut calories from what you eat.
10 Ways to Lose 10 Pounds Fast
Susan B. Roberts
January 3, 2010

Historical Examples of flab

He's as brown as a gipsy and not an ounce of flab about him.
Pearl of Pearl Island
John Oxenham
Flabby, flab′i, adj. easily moved: soft, yielding: hanging loose.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M)
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British Dictionary definitions for flab

flab

noun

unsightly or unwanted fat on the body; flabbiness

Word Origin for flab

C20: back formation from flabby

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Word Origin and History for flab

"fat, flabbiness," 1951, back-formation from flabby.