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butterball /ˈbʌtəbɔːl /noun North American1A plump bird, especially a turkey or bufflehead.These birds were also called buffel duck, spirit duck, and butterball....- Yep, it took us just a little bit over 3.5 hours to cook a nice little 10 lb butterball turkey.
- The butterball most Americans pull out of their oven is less a creature of nature then a Frankenstein of industrial agriculture.
1.1 informal, derogatory A fat person.I find it amazing that my flippant and sardonic comments on one 600 pound butterball of a women has provoked such a response....- It would perhaps be nice to think of the day celebrating my birth as synonymous with helping sick kids, but I'll find it hard not to focus on all the fat little butterball junk food addicts.
- Exactly what the protein encoded by the damaged gene did for a living or why its loss turned mice into butterballs, however, was a mystery.
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