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