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lovehandle

lovehandle is the alternative spelling 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

Forms of lovehandle

plurallovehandles

Questions about lovehandle

What is lovehandle the alternative spelling of?
Lovehandle is the alternative spelling of love handle.

Words near lovehandle in the dictionary

  1. lovefully
  2. lovegrass
  3. lovegrasses
  4. Lovegrove
  5. Lovegroves
  6. lovehandle
  7. lovehandles
  8. lovehole
  9. loveholes
  10. LOVEINT
  11. Lovejoy

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lovehandle (page history and authors); love handle (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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