love handle


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Noun1.love handle - excess fat around the waistlinelove handle - excess fat around the waistline  
adipose tissue, fatty tissue, fat - a kind of body tissue containing stored fat that serves as a source of energy; it also cushions and insulates vital organs; "fatty tissue protected them from the severe cold"
torso, trunk, body - the body excluding the head and neck and limbs; "they moved their arms and legs and bodies"
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ARRYAN DECATUR has an Aerosmith tattoo on the upper part of his right (your left) love handle that cost seventy dollars.
http://sportsmedicine.about.com/od/abdominalcorestrengthl/ss/AbAnatomy.htm The external obliques are to each side of the rectus abdominis, and consist of both the front-lateral and "love handle" areas in the midsection.
UNFORTUNATELY I DOVE RIGHT ONTO MY PROTRUDING BROADHEAD, WHICH STABBED ME THROUGH A SOFT "LOVE HANDLE."
Eventually, a nurse is free to give me two injections - one needle goes in my belly and another needle, the size of my little finger, into my love handle. I'm pretty well versed when it comes to pain.
A single treatment is usually enough for each love handle. A larger beer belly or a set of flaps of fat under the arms may need two treatments.
Areas which are commonly fat grafted include the depressions on the sides between the love handles and the saddle bags, as well as the buttocks for shape improvement or augmentation, if desired.
The day will be raising awareness of mental health and there will be music from local band The Love Handles and hot food and snacks.
Before that, he'd been clamped with a machine that cooled down his love handles.
This right here," he said, pinching his love handles out of his shirt.
[USA], Nov 22 (ANI): Almost every fitness professional recommends improvement in diet and regular exercise to lose those love handles, but according to various researchers it requires even more time and effort.
Amina Khalil commented on her picture from "Al Gouna's" festival's closing ceremony while wearing a dress that revealed her love handles.