Belly flaps, waist wings or flab handles (pl. n.) 


Unsightly mounds of flesh that are visible just above the waistband as a result of a slightly portly woman who is wearing over-tight jeans that cause her excess flesh to be displaced to somewhere around the midriff. Immortalised in that oft-repeated maxim: ‘Check out the flab handles on that!’ 

Belly flaps operate along the same principle that causes the air in a child's party balloon, which when squeezed at one end, correspondingly inflates the other. Contrary to common sense, decency, good taste and just about every other instinct known to man, many women take great delight in showing off their flab handles, and purposefully wear low cut jeans and short tops for this very purpose.

The only known remedies for this all too common problem are to (a) go on a diet, (b) cover up, or (c) not give a shit and go out pretending that one looks terribly attractive.

The male equivalent of flab handles is the equally repulsive and considerably more common ‘beer flap’. See also ‘wackelpudding’. 

Posted on Monday - April 25, 2005 at 08:24 AM            


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