What does love handle mean?

love handle means "excess fat around the waistline".

What is another word for love handle?

Close synonyms include spare tire. 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 love handle a common word?

love handle 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.

Love handle — meaning and 1 synonym

noun

1 senseA person, place, thing, quality or idea.

1.
excess fat around the waistline
Synonymsspare tire
Broaderadipose tissue
Part oftorso

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What does love handle mean?: love handle means "excess fat around the waistline".
What is another word for love handle?: Close synonyms include spare tire. 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.

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