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love handles

love handles is the plural of love handle.

Meaning of love handle

Noun

love handle (plural love handles)

  1. (colloquial, euphemistic, in plural) A protruding area of fat on the side of the body, above the hips.
    • The good news. Three weeks into the programme I am rediscovering bits of my body I had forgotten existed; biceps, triceps, hamstrings and those funny muscles on the sides of the abdomen called obliques, the toning of which is supposed to eliminate the love handle.2017 November 16, Jo Ellison, “Help: the gym has turned us into slobs”, in Financial Times, archived from the original on 10 Mar 2025

Questions about love handles

What is love handles the plural of?
Love handles is the plural of love handle.

Words near love handles in the dictionary

  1. love gloves
  2. love goggles
  3. love grass
  4. love grasses
  5. love handle
  6. love handles
  7. love heart
  8. love hearts
  9. love hold
  10. love holds
  11. love hole

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