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View definitions for middle-age spread

middle-age spread

noun as in bay window

noun as in potbelly

noun as in love handles

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Is this middle-age spread inevitable?

Olympic medalists with a hint of middle-age spread who have day jobs as firefighters, police officers and cooks do not look so different from many viewers who can convince themselves that if they too played enough they could get that good.

From Reuters

Olympic medalists with a hint of middle-age spread who have day jobs as firefighters, police officers and cooks do not look so different from many viewers who can convince themselves that if they too played enough they could get that good.

From Reuters

“The aging of the human race has been faster than anyone could have imagined a few decades ago. Fertility rates have plunged globally; simultaneously, life spans have increased. The result is a re-contoured age graph: The pyramid, once with a tiny number of old folks at the peak and a broad foundation of children, is inverting. In wealthy countries, the graph already has a pronounced middle-age spread.”

Dressed a bit like nu-metal-era Fred Durst – backwards navy baseball cap, oversized plain T-shirt hiding early middle-age spread, a dusting of stubble – Prydz teases out his two-hour set of relentless, organ-displacing house bangers.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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