"salad dodger" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: en-au-salad dodger.ogg [Australia] Forms: salad dodgers [plural]
Etymology: From idea that such a person avoids salads in favour of unhealthy or fattening foods. Head templates: {{en-noun}} salad dodger (plural salad dodgers)
  1. (informal, derogatory) An overweight person. Tags: derogatory, informal Categories (topical): Obesity, People Synonyms (overweight person): fat person Translations (overweight person): punkero (Finnish), толстя́к (tolstják) (Russian)
    Sense id: en-salad_dodger-en-noun-3WnJ4d~6 Disambiguation of Obesity: 68 32 Disambiguation of People: 48 52 Disambiguation of 'overweight person': 97 3 Disambiguation of 'overweight person': 97 3
  2. (informal) One who does not normally eat salad. Tags: informal Categories (topical): People Translations (one who does not normally eat salad): Salatverschmäher [masculine] (German)
    Sense id: en-salad_dodger-en-noun-VAs5Yj5L Disambiguation of People: 48 52 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 26 74 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 25 75 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 23 77 Disambiguation of 'one who does not normally eat salad': 3 97

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