double chin

1. 1.

   a fold of fatty tissue under the chin

   Synonymsbuccula

   Broaderchin

Questions about double chin

What does double chin mean?

double chin means "a fold of fatty tissue under the chin".

What is another word for double chin?

Close synonyms include buccula. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is double chin a common word?

double chin is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.