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flab

  [flab]
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–noun
1. flabby flesh; unwanted fat: Daily exercise will get rid of the flab around your waist.
2. the condition of being flabby: Most of the new recruits had run to flab in civilian life.
Origin:
1920–25; back formation from flabby
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flab   (flāb)   
n.  Soft fatty body tissue.

[Back-formation from flabby.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Word Origin & History

flab 
1923, back-formation from flabby (q.v.).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: flab
Pronunciation: 'flab
Function: noun
: soft flabby body tissue
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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