muffin top
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- noun
- /ˈmʌfɪn tɑp/
- Informal
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rollo de muffin
- I have a high waist, and there's a good 10+ inches between my waist and my hip measurements, but because my waist is so high, "curvy cut" jeans tend to cut in way too quickly and give me a muffin top!
Wow, look at my muffin top.
- Wow, look at my muffin top.
Examples
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A large amount of muffin top is always going to make you more self-conscious and will drastically limit the types of clothing that you feel comfortable and attractive wearing.
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If you want to learn how to get rid of a muffin top, you really have to regulate the quality of your salads.
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It's just a little muffin top.
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I hate my muffin top.
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So if you want to learn how to get rid of muffin top, you need to regulate your restaurant food.
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That the roll of fat that hangs over the jean is called a muffin top.
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I've pretty much decided that I can only wear glasses with a pretty straight rectangular frame—anything that comes in on my cheeks makes my eye-to-cheek area look like it's got muffin top.
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After gaining some weight, she noticed a muffin top forming above her jeans.
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He was self-conscious about his muffin top whenever he wore tight shirts.
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To avoid the muffin top look, she chose high-waisted pants for her outfit.
Synonyms
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Extra fat around the waist that looks like a round band
Antonyms
How Pronounced
- Informal
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase combines 'muffin' and 'top' via a visual/simile: it names body fat that resembles the rounded top of a muffin. This is a figurative, resemblance-based meaning that a B1 learner might partly infer from the constituents but would likely need context or cultural exposure to map it specifically to fat spilling over a waistband, so it is not fully transparent.
Etymology
Muffin top comes from the image of a muffin whose rounded top swells and spills over the paper case as it bakes. So the phrase describes a 'layer of fat' that spills over a tight waistband and looks like that muffin 'top'.