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单词 flab
释义

flab

[ flab ]
/ flæb /
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noun

flabby flesh; unwanted fat: Daily exercise will get rid of the flab around your waist.
the condition of being flabby: Most of the new recruits had run to flab in civilian life.

Origin of flab

First recorded in 1920–25; back formation from flabby

Words nearby flab

FJI, fjord, fk, fl, Fla., flab, flabbergast, flabbergasted, flabby, flabellate, flabelli-
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Example sentences from the Web for flab

  • The flab that you actually want to lose is fat, and that will only come off to the extent that you cut calories from what you eat.

    10 Ways to Lose 10 Pounds Fast|Susan B. Roberts|January 3, 2010|DAILY BEAST

  • Flabby, flab′i, adj. easily moved: soft, yielding: hanging loose.

    Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M)|Various

  • He's as brown as a gipsy and not an ounce of flab about him.

    Pearl of Pearl Island|John Oxenham

British Dictionary definitions for flab

flab
/ (flæb) /

noun

unsightly or unwanted fat on the body; flabbiness

Word Origin for flab

C20: back formation from flabby
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Words related to flab

flesh, grease, lard, bluff, hood, shade, blindfold, surplus, overabundance, plethora, paunch, fatness, bulk, superfluity, tallow, corpulence, blubber, obesity, overflow, excess
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