chunkster

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English

Etymology

From chunk +‎ -ster; compare chunky.

Noun

chunkster (plural chunksters)

  1. (slang) A fat person.
    • 1995, Joe Queenan, The Unkindest Cut, Hyperion, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 160:
      Ordinary people do not leap at the opportunity to be cast as chunksters so fat they cannot even fit through a door. Ordinary people do not leap at the opportunity to deliver lines like, “I know what I am, Lieutenant. I'm a pig. I'm a wild beast.”
    • 2022 April 6, Sandi Hall, Sunrise Ponders, Christian Faith Publishing, Inc., →ISBN, →OCLC:
      I can say as a curvy, chunkster all my life... I learned at a very young age to put on a mask of humor to hide my insecurities.