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  • adjective chiefly UK, of a person, euphemistic Fat, corpulent, full-figured.
  • adjective Amply equipped or provisioned, especially with respect to a place where food is served.

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Examples

  • People go home singing the song, not talking about how well-covered it was.

    Todd Henry: Cover Bands Don't Change the World Todd Henry 2011

  • People go home singing the song, not talking about how well-covered it was.

    Todd Henry: Cover Bands Don't Change the World Todd Henry 2011

  • The offer was well-covered, with €13.5bn put up by investors.10.03am: Standard & Poor's chief Europe economist Jean-Michel Six is speaking – unclear where at the moment – and has said that the summit made "progress", Reuters is reporting.

    Eurozone crisis: stock markets slide as summit optimism wanes - 12 December 2011 2011

  • He'd been shown an early build of a reasonably well-covered game, and wasn't at all impressed.

    While You Wait For The Others SVGL 2009

  • We might just write a little more about our self and our many interests, subjects we find vastly entertaining, and a little less about publishing, a subject that is rapidly losing any interest for us whatsoever and is anyway very well-covered by our many, far saner, more professional, and well-informed compatriots, who have much wisdom to offer you, and far less rabid foaming.

    Stuff We Did On Our Vacation, Part Two, With Assorted Digressions 2010

  • Newedge noted solid demand at the French auction and said of the Spanish auction: "For the second week in a row, the total amount exceeds the initial target," adding that all lines were well-covered.

    European Stocks Rise Michele Maatouk 2012

  • The first two are fairly self-explanatory, and well-covered elsewhere on this Web site.

    Caps fans at the Winter Classic, plus a Yeti Dan Steinberg 2011

  • We might just write a little more about our self and our many interests, subjects we find vastly entertaining, and a little less about publishing, a subject that is rapidly losing any interest for us whatsoever and is anyway very well-covered by our many, far saner, more professional, and well-informed compatriots, who have much wisdom to offer you, and far less rabid foaming.

    Archive 2010-04-01 2010

  • As a newcomer to TT, I don't wish to run the rest of you through what may already be well-covered ground.

    The Weasel Thread 2009

  • There will probably be a lot of new writings on that well-covered topic, but "I hope my book will be a definitive book on the subject," the D.C. legal scholar told us.

    In other news: James Swanson pens deal for JFK assassination book 2011

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