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- noun Plural form of
cankle .
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Examples
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For clients who don't respond to his training regime of sprinting up stairs and repeated leg lifts, Anthony Preischel, a personal trainer at the Mid City Gym in Manhattan, has designed a homemade short-term cankles remedy that involves applying Preparation H hemorrhoid cream to the ankle and then wrapping it in an Ace bandage overnight.
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Thanks for the reminder that complaining about cankles is a luxury.
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But enough Americans are concerned about fat ankles -- or "cankles" -- that gyms are coming up with new ways to tone them; plastic surgeons are pushing $4,000 to $6,000 liposuction procedures to slim them; and shoe companies are offering special models designed to minimize them.
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Louboutin insists the doll has 'cankles', or fat ankles.
Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7 2010
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Louboutin insists the doll has 'cankles', or fat ankles.
Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7 shantanu 2010
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Louboutin insists the doll has 'cankles', or fat ankles.
Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7 2010
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Why call attention to hefty calves and thick ankles aka "cankles" (Photos 2, 4)?
chicagotribune.com - 2010
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Louboutin insists the doll has 'cankles', or fat ankles.
Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7 shantanu 2010
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Louboutin insists the doll has 'cankles', or fat ankles.
Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7 2010
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Although Madden was enormously popular for his on-the-fly analysis of games, expertise drawn from his years as a coach with the Oakland Raiders, and his occasional tangents onto subjects like "cankles" or "great coaches with hats," he also left a significant mark on the gaming industry.
GameSpot's News, Screenshots, Movies, Reviews, Previews, Downloads, and Features 2009
arby commented on the word cankles
An unfortunate condition in which one's calves flow directly to one's ankles without narrowing.
November 28, 2007
chained_bear commented on the word cankles
I knew a girl in college who had cankles.
November 28, 2007
uselessness commented on the word cankles
Flow might not be the best verb... :-P
November 29, 2007
reesetee commented on the word cankles
Oh, but if you've seen such things, you might change your mind. ;-)
November 29, 2007
chained_bear commented on the word cankles
Which reminds me of my favorite line ever from the show "Cheers" (which I didn't watch very often).
Lilith was pregnant, and when she came into the bar Sam said, "You look wonderful." She said, flat-voiced, "Oh really. Is it the glow of impending motherhood or the twenty pounds of water I'm retaining in my wrists and ankles?"
November 29, 2007
eggoabbas commented on the word cankles
from WSJ:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124830850199074223.html
"Cankle, a portmanteau word combining calf and ankle, refers to 'the area in affected female legs where the calf meets the foot in an abrupt, nontapering terminus,' according to Urban Dictionary. A spokeswoman for the American Podiatric Medical Association says the word is not a medical term."
July 23, 2009