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baby fat

[ bey-bee fat ]
/ ˈbeɪ bi ˌfæt /
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noun
the excess fat characteristic of infants and toddlers, typically outgrown later in childhood: As your child becomes more mobile, those rolls of baby fat will be replaced by a longer, leaner silhouette.
the excess fat or weight acquired by a woman during pregnancy: After having my first child, the last thing on my mind was trying to lose my baby fat.
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Origin of baby fat

First recorded in 1870–75
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How to use baby fat in a sentence

  • In the male hierarchy of overweightness that runs upward from baby fat to morbid obesity, the paunch is the glorious exception.

  • What's this now-you-see-it-now-you-don't business of fifteen or so pounds of baby fat?

    Legacy|James H Schmitz
  • If there was anything that would make a meal just to its taste that day it was baby—fat baby, about two years old.

    The Wolf's Long Howl|Stanley Waterloo
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