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love-handled

love-handled adjective: having love handles.

Adjective

love-handled (comparative more love-handled, superlative most love-handled)

  1. (colloquial, euphemistic) Having love handles.
    • "She said you were handsome when you were sixteen. She hasn't seen you now you're old and gray and love-handled."2002, Sabine Durrant, Having it and Eating It, Riverhead Books, →ISBN, page 21

Forms of love-handled

comparativemore love-handled
superlativemost love-handled

Questions about love-handled

What does love-handled mean?
Love-handled means having love handles.
What part of speech is love-handled?
Love-handled is an adjective.

Words near love-handled in the dictionary

  1. love-child
  2. love-children
  3. love-feat
  4. love-feats
  5. love-hair
  6. love-handled
  7. love-hate
  8. love-hated
  9. love-hates
  10. love-hating
  11. love-hatred

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