beer-bellied

as in plump
having a large protruding abdomen at the reunion, former players of the championship baseball squad gathered for a group photo in all their gray-haired and beer-bellied glory

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Adjective
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    Alana Al-Hatlani, Southern Living, 3 Feb. 2025
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Adjective
  • Perun summoned a potbellied officer from the T.D.F. brigade to the operations center.
    Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2024
  • What could be more luxurious than checking in without having to wade through a maze of slot machines and a cloud of cigarette smoke, dodging potbellied dudes in tank tops?
    Jay McInerney, Town & Country, 18 June 2023
Adjective
  • But if the murderer were middle-aged and paunchy . . .
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 27 Dec. 2024
  • Lean and lethally witty Adam Godley plays middle son Mayer, the perfect counterpoint to Beale’s paunchy patriarch.
    Marilyn Stasio, Variety, 14 Oct. 2021
Adjective
  • Results of a systematic review and meta-analysis show that cinnamon supplementation can impact obesity such measurements of obesity as body weight, BMI, waist circumference, and fat mass when administered for periods longer than 12 weeks.
    Anna Giorgi, Verywell Health, 6 Feb. 2025
  • More food meant more nutrition, which meant more fat to cover us as insurance against lean times.
    Daniel Seifert, JSTOR Daily, 5 Feb. 2025
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“Beer-bellied.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/beer-bellied. Accessed 10 Feb. 2025.

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