flab

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If you think you can avail yourself of any magic formula that will reduce your weight dramatically or a diet pill / fast weight loss pill that will work magic on your flab, then you are sadly mistaken.

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  • All three hundred twenty pounds of Myers did a flab-wriggling victory dance that was not a pretty sight. —  BloodBrothers
  • Catch a roll of flab or a ripple of cellulite caressing a thigh, and you've got enough dough to live on for a month. —  Meredith Blevins - [Szabo 01] - The Hummingbird Wizard
  • Where Daeman was mostly pale flab, Hannah showed tanned muscle. —  Dan Simmons - Hockenberry 1 - Ilium
  • He was big but running to flab, clad only in shabby jeans and an open leather vest; his full beard hung nearly to his belt, and his matted curls were restrained by a blue bandanna. —  dummy2
  • Such things might be great on college applications, but they were death on the social life What he particularly hated was physical education, which the Kansas Board of Education, in its infinite wisdom, had decreed to be a flab-fighting must for all high school students. —  AnalogSFF,January-February2007
 

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