as in belly
an enlarged or bulging abdomen
he began exercising to get rid of his growing potbelly and to improve his health
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Recent Examples of potbelly
In the footage shown at CinemaCon, Cruise is seen sporting gray hair and a potbelly, while rocking a Southern accent.
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Saba Hamedy, NBC news, 17 Apr. 2026
Those on the scene identified the pig as male and likely a potbelly.
—Heather Bushman, IndyStar, 3 Oct. 2025
This digestive machinery takes up a lot of room, giving the animals a potbelly.
—Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 June 2025
An equipment manager had such a potbelly that his pants kind of got lost under the belly.
—Vahe Gregorian, Kansas City Star, 6 June 2025
For Valenti’s current foster pig, a black and white potbelly named Arnold, that means screaming around 5 p.m. demanding to be fed for dinner time or digging up acorns buried by squirrels in the backyard.
—Carolyn Stein, Chicago Tribune, 15 Feb. 2025
The train car features a sitting area, kitchenette, gas potbelly stove, bathroom and king-sized bed.
—Celia Fernandez,mickey Todiwala, CNBC, 11 Jan. 2025
For example, a mid-century handmade potbelly stove ornament doesn’t hang all that far on my tree from an arguably humiliating fifth grade craft project and Snapfish.com creation immortalizing the Germantown neighborhood's now shuttered Come Back Inn.
—Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 18 Dec. 2024
Saba Hamedy, NBC news, 17 Apr. 2026
Those on the scene identified the pig as male and likely a potbelly.
—Heather Bushman, IndyStar, 3 Oct. 2025
This digestive machinery takes up a lot of room, giving the animals a potbelly.
—Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 June 2025
An equipment manager had such a potbelly that his pants kind of got lost under the belly.
—Vahe Gregorian, Kansas City Star, 6 June 2025
For Valenti’s current foster pig, a black and white potbelly named Arnold, that means screaming around 5 p.m. demanding to be fed for dinner time or digging up acorns buried by squirrels in the backyard.
—Carolyn Stein, Chicago Tribune, 15 Feb. 2025
The train car features a sitting area, kitchenette, gas potbelly stove, bathroom and king-sized bed.
—Celia Fernandez,mickey Todiwala, CNBC, 11 Jan. 2025
For example, a mid-century handmade potbelly stove ornament doesn’t hang all that far on my tree from an arguably humiliating fifth grade craft project and Snapfish.com creation immortalizing the Germantown neighborhood's now shuttered Come Back Inn.
—Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 18 Dec. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for potbelly
Noun
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And, of course, her dance moves — which draw from belly dancing as well as such Latin and Afro-Colombian styles as champeta and merengue — lived up to their nearly mythic status.—
Jim Harrington,
Mercury News,
21 June 2026
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Everything is measured by devices latched onto the belly.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
19 June 2026
Noun
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The pulses are designed to normalize the nerve messaging from the brain to the stomach to relieve symptoms of nausea and vomiting without side effects.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
16 June 2026
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The reaction is often rather stomach-turning.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
16 June 2026
Noun
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There is a funny thread of everyone thinking Woody’s getting a bit old – rocking a paunch and a poncho – while Buzz pines for Jessie.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
16 June 2026
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Gore is best known for Make America Great Again, her 2016 naked portrait of Trump with the paunch and solemnity of the great men of art history, adding, crucially, the tiniest of compensatory micropenises.—
Eugenie Brinkema,
ARTnews.com,
14 June 2026
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“Potbelly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/potbelly. Accessed 24 Jun. 2026.
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