Definitions

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

  • noun A protruding abdominal region.
  • noun A potbelly stove.

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

  • noun a large, swollen, or protruding abdomen; a paunch
  • noun a potbelly stove

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Examples

  • Sydney from Wayne, Indiana, asked this, "I heard having a potbelly is the worst type of fat to have.

    CNN Transcript Feb 14, 2009 2009

  • I suspect some people would welcome other ways to say and think of fat, diet, weight loss, baldness, graying, potbelly, and dandruff.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • I suspect some people would welcome other ways to say and think of fat, diet, weight loss, baldness, graying, potbelly, and dandruff.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • Fancy gave the boy a pitying look, taking in his dork haircut, potbelly, and short pants.

    Slice Of Cherry Dia Reeves 2011

  • At Göbekli Tepe in Turkey “Hill with a potbelly”, for example, is a sanctuary with limestone pillars that were carved and erected by hunter-gatherers more than eleven thousand years ago.

    SuperCooperators Martin A. Nowak 2011

  • But I certainly don't want him to end up being a stereotypical sitcom Johnny with a potbelly and a hot wife.

    Neil Patrick Harris Suits Up to Host the Tony Awards 2011

  • We know it's summer because the man and an uninterested young boy are naked from the waist up, so what's Santa doing there, and why doesn't he have a potbelly?

    A Teacher, a Student and Three Books William Meyers 2011

  • What Kilbourne is saying to me is that my little girl, my beautiful daughter who has described her little potbelly as being "fluffy" and who loves to wear bikinis even though her belly is "puffy," is just a couple of years away from seeing herself as fat, as unattractive and as abnormal.

    John Riofrio: Open Letter to American Girl John Riofrio 2011

  • A MAN WITH an enormous handlebar mustache and an even more enormous potbelly and a pipe between his lips was staring at the girl who had so unexpectedly appeared in his office.

    Bubble in the Bathtub Jo Nesbo 2011

  • Fancy gave the boy a pitying look, taking in his dork haircut, potbelly, and short pants.

    Slice Of Cherry Dia Reeves 2011

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