English

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Etymology

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From tubby +‎ -o.

Noun

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tubbo (plural tubbos)

  1. (slang) An obese person.
    • 1982, Sue Grafton, A is for Alibi:
      The problem is that our society shuns tubbos. Fat people are heavily discriminated against. Worse than the handicapped.
    • 2003, Clay Reynolds, Ars Poetica: A Postmodern Parable[1]:
      If prose got people fat, you can bet everybody would be a real tubbo.