land whale

Noun

landwhale (plural landwhales)

1. (derogatory, slang) An obese person.
   • There is nothing else to hit on here except fat girls so the landwhales just assume that since they have no problem getting dates that it's all right to be fat.1985, John J. Burke IV, "One male's opinion" [letter to the editor], The Pointer (University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point), Volume 29, Number 13, 21 November 1985, page 28

   Synonyms:

   All are derogatory unless otherwise labeled, butterball, chod, chodder, chubbs, chubster, chunker, chunky monkey, elephant, fat

2. (slang) An excessively large motor vehicle.
   • That jerk did such a bad job parking his landwhale that it's taking up four parking spaces!
3. (slang) A fattened pig, harvested for its oil.
   • A. Richard Crabb, The Hybrid-Corn Makers: Prophets of Plenty (1947), p. 10: "This [c. 1850] was the era of the 'land whale,' when fat hogs, fed two years or more on a concentrated corn diet, supplied the oil that largely replaced the whale oil used earlier so extensively in the seaboard area of the...