pot belly

See also: potbelly and pot-belly

English

Noun

pot belly (plural pot bellies)

1. Alternative form of potbelly
   • 1995 January, “Flatten Your Belly! (Advertisement)”, in Popular Science, volume 246, number 1, page 89:

     The book shows you a simple and fast way to give yourself a flat, firm stomach — even if other attempts to lose your pot belly failed.

   • 2007, Jeffrey Smith, Mischief Makers, →ISBN, page 57:

     When my dad was about thirty or so, he acquired a huge pot belly, but everything else was quite skinny; legs, arms, etc.

   • 2009, Jonathan Daniel Wells, Sheila R. Phipps, Entering the Fray: Gender, Politics, and Culture in the New South, →ISBN:

     Little Maggie, though a new victim, already suffered from “marked anemia, pot belly and dry hair.”

   • 2011, James W. Pennebaker, The Secret Life of Pronouns: What Our Words Say About Us, →ISBN:

     Pot bellies make a man look either oafish, or like a gorilla. But on a woman, a pot belly is very sexy.