See muffin top on Wiktionary
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"ref": "2009, Tracy Beckerman, “do you know the muffin top”, in Beth Feldman, editor, See Mom Run: Side-Splitting Essays from the World's Most Harried Blogging Moms, page 38:",
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"ref": "2010, Guido DiErio, Fist Pump: An In-Your-Face Guide to Going Guido, page 133:",
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"ref": "2011, Marissa De Luna, Goa Traffic, page 95:",
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"(colloquial, sometimes derogatory) The roll of flesh that bulges over the top of excessively tight trousers."
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