muffin top
when stomach fat hangs over a waistband
TRANSLATION
muffin top = (Körper) Rettungsring --- GOOGLE INDEX muffin top: approximately 2,300,000 Google hits
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Exercises to Lose Your MUFFIN TOP
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Overall, this is a great way to smoothen, contour, tone and lift your stomach and abdominal area, and reduce that muffin top.
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Overall, this is a great way to smoothen, contour, tone and lift your stomach and abdominal area, and reduce that muffin top.
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muffin top
noun phrase, slang
- a roll of fat visible above the top of a pair of tight-fitting low-waisted trousers
(Oxford English Dictionary)
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Most everyone knows a muffin as a small cake that rises above its container when it is baked. After it is removed, it has a round shape that hangs over the top edge. One is reminded of those mushroom clouds that rose above the Nevada desert during nuclear tests in the 50s and 60s.
Fast-forwarding to the new millennium, the female fashion world has experienced a re-birth of the hippie-era "bare midriff" look consisting of hip hugger jeans/pants and short blouses or t-shirts that leave the abdomen exposed. With a population that is generally more overweight than 4 decades ago, the unintended consequence of this style is the evolution of the "muffin top," or excess flesh that hangs over the waistband of tight trousers.
While it may seem unfair in the age of political correctness to present this as merely a female fashion trend, the fact is that men's fashions are designed to cover up this so-called midriff bulge. That leaves women largely responsible for the muffin top. Men have things like "love handles, spare tires and saddlebags" (excess flesh on the side of the abdomen), in addition to pot bellies and beer guts. Men can survive by wearing oversized t-shirts.
It's not clear who coined the expression muffin top, or exactly when. According to Wikipedia, muffin top may have been popularized by an Australian television show around 2003. Australia's Macquarie Dictionary named muffin top the word of the year in 2006. The American Dialect Society named it one of the "most creative" new terms that same year. Finally, the Oxford English Dictionary added the term to its revised online edition in March 2011.
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"A doctor is more likely to describe a muffin top as slight abdominal obesity."
noun phrase, slang
- a roll of fat visible above the top of a pair of tight-fitting low-waisted trousers
(Oxford English Dictionary)
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Most everyone knows a muffin as a small cake that rises above its container when it is baked. After it is removed, it has a round shape that hangs over the top edge. One is reminded of those mushroom clouds that rose above the Nevada desert during nuclear tests in the 50s and 60s.
Fast-forwarding to the new millennium, the female fashion world has experienced a re-birth of the hippie-era "bare midriff" look consisting of hip hugger jeans/pants and short blouses or t-shirts that leave the abdomen exposed. With a population that is generally more overweight than 4 decades ago, the unintended consequence of this style is the evolution of the "muffin top," or excess flesh that hangs over the waistband of tight trousers.
While it may seem unfair in the age of political correctness to present this as merely a female fashion trend, the fact is that men's fashions are designed to cover up this so-called midriff bulge. That leaves women largely responsible for the muffin top. Men have things like "love handles, spare tires and saddlebags" (excess flesh on the side of the abdomen), in addition to pot bellies and beer guts. Men can survive by wearing oversized t-shirts.
It's not clear who coined the expression muffin top, or exactly when. According to Wikipedia, muffin top may have been popularized by an Australian television show around 2003. Australia's Macquarie Dictionary named muffin top the word of the year in 2006. The American Dialect Society named it one of the "most creative" new terms that same year. Finally, the Oxford English Dictionary added the term to its revised online edition in March 2011.
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"A doctor is more likely to describe a muffin top as slight abdominal obesity."
