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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How to use flab in a sentence

Pray, tell me, what are those gummy flabs at the sides of your head?
Life in a Thousand Worlds | William Shuler Harris

British Dictionary definitions for flab

flab

/ (flæb) /

noun

unsightly or unwanted fat on the body; flabbiness

Origin of flab

C20: back formation from flabby

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