thigh gap

English

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Noun

thigh gap (countable and uncountable, plural thigh gaps)

1. A space between the inner thighs of some people when standing upright with feet touching.

   Hyponym: Toblerone tunnel

   • 2013 February 8, Tina Hassannia, “Waging war on web ‘thinspiration’”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     From there you can find thousands of pictures of bloody wrists and thighs, messages of despair and cries for help, and photos of underweight women that mostly focus on apparent ribs, concave stomachs, thigh gaps, and prominent hip and collar bones.

   • 2014, Laurie Friedman, Too Good to Be True, →ISBN, page 58:

     When she said that, I looked around to see who had thigh gaps.

   • 2016, Nelson Mwangi, Street: Strategy to Reach Edify & Empower Teens, →ISBN:

     Before starving yourself to death, please be informed that thigh gap is a matter of bone structure which most teen girls don't have and those who have it were created that way.

   • 2016, Haleigh Lovell, The Slam (A Romance):

     And let me tell you this about Danni -- she's like one of those mean sorority sisters who will happily circle your problem areas with a red Sharpie and mock you if you don't have a thigh gap.”

Usage notes

This term is almost exclusively applied to girls and women rather than men.

Translations

gap between thighs

• Esperanto: femurfendo
• German: Oberschenkellücke f

Further reading

• thigh gap on Wikipedia.Wikipedia