flab

[ flab ]
/ flæb /
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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.

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Origin of flab

First recorded in 1920–25; back formation from flabby

Words nearby flab

fl oz, fl., fl. dr., fl. oz., fla., flab, flabbergast, flabbergasted, flabby, flabellate, flabelli-
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Words related to flab

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

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British Dictionary definitions for flab

flab
/ (flæb) /

noun

unsightly or unwanted fat on the body; flabbiness

Word Origin for flab

C20: back formation from flabby
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