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spare tire

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun An additional tire carried in a vehicle as a replacement for one that goes flat.
  • noun Slang A paunch; a potbelly.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun North America An extra wheel or tire carried as a replacement in case of a flat.
  • noun North America, idiomatic Excess weight or fat accumulated near the waist.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun excess fat around the waistline

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synonyms (37)

Words with the same meaning

  1. abdomen
  2. abomasum
  3. bay window
  4. beerbelly
  5. belly
  6. breadbasket
  7. craw
  8. crop
  9. diaphragm
  10. embonpoint
  11. first stomach
  12. gizzard
  13. gullet
  14. gut
  15. honeycomb stomach
  16. kishkes
  17. manyplies
  18. maw
  19. midriff
  20. omasum
  21. paunch
  22. pot
  23. potbelly
  24. potgut
  25. psalterium
  26. pusgut
  27. rennet bag
  28. reticulum
  29. rumen
  30. second stomach
  31. stomach
  32. swagbelly
  33. third stomach
  34. tum-tum
  35. tummy
  36. underbelly
  37. ventripotence

hypernyms (3)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. adipose tissue
  2. fat
  3. fatty tissue

cross-references (2)

Cross-references

  1. beer belly
  2. love handle

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