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Entries from January 2009

Bingo wings, muffin tops and moobs

January 4th, 2009 · 4 Comments

I saw some good examples of noun-noun compounds recently in the London Underground on these advertisements for a fitness club:

According to Wikipedia, “Bingo wings is a slang term used to describe the build-up of fat and/or extra skin that hangs from the underside of the upper arms. It occurs most frequently in elderly ladies and […]

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Tags: Learner-friendly corpora · Using search engines · Vocabulary