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Definition of pot belly in English: pot bellynoun A large, protruding, rotund stomach. Example sentencesExamples - Instead of seeing my pot belly and peculiar bum, I saw my green eyes, with their unusually large pupils, my thick wavy hair, full lips and ample bust.
- The spokesman said the suspect is described as of East European appearance, 6ft 2ins tall, heavily built with a pot belly.
- The bloke was easily in his 60s, unshaven, with a pot belly.
- The man is a bit sorry for himself, wears his pot belly like a flag or invitation card.
- So yeah, I had to work out but, you know, it's such a ridiculous character, the guy's so silly that I don't think it would have mattered if he'd got a pot belly.
- Some people develop skinny legs, but a pot belly, a buffalo hump or a double chin as a side effect.
- Within a month, you are guaranteed a paunch, a pot belly, and the inability to walk up stairs.
- I'm comfortable being a short, stocky person if it's one that's muscly - what I'm not comfortable with is my current pot belly, extra-padded hips, and padded thighs.
- I'm never going to have hips or chunky thighs, but I've no waist and a pot belly, which apparently makes me ideal for endurance sports.
- He had a bad razor rash and a bit of a pot belly and so I was stood in the queue trying to copy his gait and sticking my belly out when he turned round and caught me looking at him!
- Looks really aren't important to me: my last boyfriend had a double mastectomy and a pot belly.
- He has a tall, lanky frame with a budding pot belly.
- And for example, you look at ballet dancers, have you ever seen a ballet dancer on stage on the point of one toe with the arms above the head with a pot belly?
- This lead to a short pause as everybody momentarily glanced up to soak in the sight of the new teacher: a short 50 year old woman with black hair, thick square glasses and a pot belly.
- He now has a pot belly while his Afro haircut of the 1980s has been replaced by a short-cropped style and his beard has gone from black to grey.
- Last time I saw him speak, I had the impression of a short man with a pronounced pot belly.
- It doesn't work if your pot belly is the result of over-indulgence.
- ‘You can't have been here that long - you haven't got a pot belly,’ he told a British citizen he met in Budapest, Hungary, in 1993.
- A man with a pot belly and a balding head walked into the room.
- A black-haired, thickly-bearded man in the middle of the soldiers with his armour hanging over a pot belly stepped forward, thumbs hooked through his sword belt.
Synonyms paunch, belly, beer belly, gut, fat/protruding stomach informal beer gut, pot, tummy, spare tyre, middle-aged spread North American informal bay window informal, dated corporation
Derivatives adjective ˈpɒtˌbɛlɪd Ken, the avuncular pot-bellied politician with a preference for suede shoes, small cigars and pints, turned a few heads when he and his gang of 12 swept into the Mare. Example sentencesExamples - Tinker, a career criminal, has spent much of his life in prison; he's pot-bellied, balding with straggly brown hair, and has a thick handlebar moustache.
- That hairy pot-bellied old man is the director.
- Afterwards - when he'd pocketed an estimated $250m thanks to his pot-bellied botanist pal - he became a major Hollywood force.
- Groups of pot-bellied old men in seldom worn suits stood in clusters, leaning in to catch a word, laughing, lining up for photos taken by children and grandchildren.
- Grey-haired matrons, in their favorite skirts and lucky boots, spin and move with knobby-kneed, pot-bellied men.
Synonyms paunchy, beer-bellied, portly, rotund, roly-poly, stout, overweight, corpulent, Falstaffian informal porky, tubby
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