Citations:landwhale

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English citations of landwhale, land-whale, and land whale

Noun: "(slang, pejorative) an obese person"

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  • 1985, John J. Burke IV, "One male's opinion" , The Pointer (University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point), Volume 29, Number 13, 21 November 1985, page 28:
    There is nothing else to hit on here except fat girls so the landwhales just assume that since they have no problem getting dates that it's all right to be fat.
  • 2006, "Hearsay", Skinnie Magazine, October 2006, page 24:
    That's less lazy people getting Social Security, or taking jobs that us normal-sized people need. Eat yourself to death, landwhales!
  • 2014, Brock Barrack, Touch Wood, iUniverse (2010), →ISBN, unnumbered page:
    The Captain guy was talking now. Sounded official. Trim build. Looked in good shape for someone in his fifties. From what he could scope out. Interesting. Not all Americans were landwhales by thirty.
  • 2015, Jessica Rhoades, "My Beautiful Body", Naked, Winter 2015, page 16:
    "What a fucking fat landwhale."

Noun: "(slang) an excessively large motor vehicle"

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  • 1994, Norman Spinrad, Pictures at 11, Gollancz (2013), →ISBN, unnumbered page:
    "And they couldn't have done that if the truckers had set their rigs on fire, could they? If ten or twenty thousand Americans used their landwhales to block the freeways and then dropped matches in the gas tanks!"
  • 2010, Alistair Urquhart, The Forgotten Highlander: An Incredible WWII Story of Survival in the Pacific, Skyhorse Publishing (2010), →ISBN, unnumbered page:
    She led me to her car, a bright blue land-whale so immense I could hardly believe she was about to get behind the wheel.
  • 2012, Linda Townsley, The Dream Singer, WestBow Press (2012), →ISBN, unnumbered page:
    "It's getting close to Timmy's bedtime, so we won't stay long. I suppose you heard us arrive. We'll be staying outside tonight in that land whale we drove up in."