"muffin top" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "From the shape of the top of a muffin (a cupcake), which bulges over the top of its paper container.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "muffin tops",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "muffin top (plural muffin tops)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "50 50",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "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",
          "text": "Finally, I stopped lunging and with my Baby Belly, my Bat Wings, my Muffin Top and my Banana Folds, I rolled up my yoga mat and walked to the door.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Guido DiErio, Fist Pump: An In-Your-Face Guide to Going Guido, page 133",
          "text": "You should certainly aim for shorts tight enough to accomplish two ends: constricting proper blood flow and providing a nice canvas for your muffin-top.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Marissa De Luna, Goa Traffic, page 95",
          "text": "She hated her flat hair and her muffin top that spilled ever so slightly from her jeans, and she had felt increasingly uninspired at work.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The roll of flesh that bulges over the top of excessively tight trousers."
      ],
      "id": "en-muffin_top-en-noun-YUUhwxu4",
      "links": [
        [
          "roll",
          "roll"
        ],
        [
          "bulge",
          "bulge"
        ],
        [
          "trousers",
          "trousers"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(colloquial) The roll of flesh that bulges over the top of excessively tight trousers."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "colloquial"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "roll of flesh",
          "word": "jenkkakahva"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "roll of flesh",
          "word": "pneu"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "roll of flesh",
          "word": "pneuzinho"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "50 50",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2011, Sherri Liberman, American Food by the Decades, page 134",
          "text": "Kellogg also expanded the brand by introducing pancakes, mini waffles, French toast, and muffin tops.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see muffin, top; the top of a muffin, sometimes removed to be eaten separately."
      ],
      "id": "en-muffin_top-en-noun-Cn~edlbI",
      "links": [
        [
          "muffin",
          "muffin#English"
        ],
        [
          "top",
          "top#English"
        ],
        [
          "muffin",
          "muffin"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "_dis1": "28 72",
          "word": "underbutt"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "muffin top"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English nouns"
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From the shape of the top of a muffin (a cupcake), which bulges over the top of its paper container.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "muffin tops",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "muffin top (plural muffin tops)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "underbutt"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English colloquialisms",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "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",
          "text": "Finally, I stopped lunging and with my Baby Belly, my Bat Wings, my Muffin Top and my Banana Folds, I rolled up my yoga mat and walked to the door.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Guido DiErio, Fist Pump: An In-Your-Face Guide to Going Guido, page 133",
          "text": "You should certainly aim for shorts tight enough to accomplish two ends: constricting proper blood flow and providing a nice canvas for your muffin-top.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Marissa De Luna, Goa Traffic, page 95",
          "text": "She hated her flat hair and her muffin top that spilled ever so slightly from her jeans, and she had felt increasingly uninspired at work.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The roll of flesh that bulges over the top of excessively tight trousers."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "roll",
          "roll"
        ],
        [
          "bulge",
          "bulge"
        ],
        [
          "trousers",
          "trousers"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(colloquial) The roll of flesh that bulges over the top of excessively tight trousers."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "colloquial"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2011, Sherri Liberman, American Food by the Decades, page 134",
          "text": "Kellogg also expanded the brand by introducing pancakes, mini waffles, French toast, and muffin tops.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see muffin, top; the top of a muffin, sometimes removed to be eaten separately."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "muffin",
          "muffin#English"
        ],
        [
          "top",
          "top#English"
        ],
        [
          "muffin",
          "muffin"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "roll of flesh",
      "word": "jenkkakahva"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "roll of flesh",
      "word": "pneu"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "roll of flesh",
      "word": "pneuzinho"
    }
  ],
  "word": "muffin top"
}