labonza

labonza

1. slang The belly; one's paunch. I was horribly self-conscious that everyone would be looking at my big labonza hanging over the waistline of my jeans.
2. slang The buttocks. He gave him a swift kick in the labonza as he walked out of the room.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

labonza

(ləˈbɑnzə)
1. n. the buttocks. Good grief, what a gross labonza!
2. n. the pit of the stomach. That kind of beautiful singing really gets you right in the labonza.
3. n. the belly. I feel the effects of last night’s celebration in my wallet and in my labonza.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • gut
  • guts
  • draw (oneself) up
  • draw up
  • carry (oneself)
  • obno
  • obnoc
  • paunch
  • air (one's) paunch
  • air paunch
References in periodicals archive
In "She Said It Was Destiny" the rat is as usual left alone pondering his rat-ness, but instead of taking one in the labonza, his ex-lover provides him with an out: it was in the stars, a very polite fig leaf for the truth.
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For those of you just tuning in, I took a shot at the Disco Decade in Issue 75 and took a return volley square in the labonza from KWN -- the dreaded italicized brackets, the editor's prerogative to have the last word.
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