elevator butt
- noun
- Slang
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trasero plano
- If you want to avoid elevator butt, try getting up for a walk every hour.
Examples
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She stood up and stretched, complaining about her elevator butt after a long meeting.
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After months of remote work, I started to notice my elevator butt getting worse.
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Don't worry about elevator butt!
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She is worried about developing elevator butt from sitting all day.
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After months of remote work, I started to notice my elevator butt getting worse.
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If you want to avoid elevator butt, try getting up for a walk every hour.
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She stood up and stretched, complaining about her elevator butt after a long meeting.
How Flat
- Slang
Surface Forms
Morphology
There is no clear compositional link between 'elevator' (a lifting device) and the specialized sense 'flattened or shapeless buttocks from prolonged sitting'; 'elevator' does not evoke prolonged sitting or loss of shape. This looks like slang/novel coinage whose meaning cannot be predicted from the constituents, so a B1 learner knowing the words would not reliably infer the intended sense.
Etymology
Elevator butt paints a simple picture: imagine an elevator or a hard seat pressing down on your butt until it looks flat. So the phrase is used to describe 'buttocks that become flat or shapeless from sitting too long'.
