love handles

love handles

slang An accumulation of fat around one's midsection. I need to go back to the gym and start working out again if I want to lose these love handles in time for the wedding.
See also: handle, love
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

(love) handles

n. rolls of fat around the waist that can be held on to during lovemaking. Ted worked out daily, trying to get rid of his love handles.
See also: handle, love
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • handle
  • handles
  • a spare tyre
  • spare tire
  • spare tyre
  • gym shoe
  • toe jam
  • more you get, the more you want
  • the more you get, the more you want
  • the more you have, the more you want
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James demonstrated the use of Love Handles on a baby carriage on the Worcester Common.
http://sportsmedicine.about.com/od/abdominalcorestrengthl/ss/AbAnatomy.htm The external obliques are to each side of the rectus abdominis, and consist of both the front-lateral and "love handle" areas in the midsection.
"I'm just over a size 10 but I had love handles hanging over my hipster jeans.
Louis submits to liposuction to suck out the fat on his tummy and love handles. He also meets several surgeons and their patients, including Laura, who's having a breast enlargement, brow lift and liposuction.
These love handles? Their telltale jiggle cries not of Krispy Kremes but of repeated groundings.
Relax, doll, luck is on your side (along with sudden love handles).
Caption: Hops Grillhouse & Brewery, the 62-restaurant chain based in Madison, GA, has announced the debut of Love Handles, the company's first low carb, low calorie ale.
What they say: Sit-ups aren't the only way to banish those unsightly love handles. There is also Ab Rescue Sculpting Gel - a lightweight, creamy blue gel, that helps tighten, tone,firm and smooth skin.
Her recent bons mots include, "Are those love handles, or are you growing wings?"
Middle age delivers a unique (and unwelcome) set of firsts, including love handles, memory lapses, gray hair, and varicose veins.
[USA], Apr 2 (ANI): Apart from the other disadvantages of having excess weight around the waist, love handles may even restrict lungs.
Prior to the hiatus, "Lucifer" Season 2, episode 12, titled "(http://www.spoilersguide.com/lucifer/season-2-episode-12-love-handles-promo/) Love Handles ," will first air on the network.
AGAINST Roger Federer, Marcus Willis lived up to his likeable no-hoper, fun-guy handles - and then lived down to his love handles.
It will continue to effectively address "muffin tops" and "love handles," but the addition of the CoolMini applicator to its repertoire handily expands the procedure's capabilities.
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