There were, in addition, many Dancing Ganeshas, and it was these wiggle-hipped Ganpatis, love-handled and plump of gut, against whom Aurora competed, setting her profane gyrations against the jolly jiving of the much-replicated god.
2000 — Melinda Muse, I'm Afraid, You're Afraid: 450 Things to Fear and Why, Hyperion (2000), →ISBN:
Lipstick is the fastest growing cosmetic procedure (the numbers increased 215 percent from 1992 to 1997) as thousands of blubber thighed and love-handled Americans are slit open and lard-vacuumed.
2001 — Christopher Thomasel, The Subway Pusher, Writers Club Press (2001), →ISBN, page 81:
Joey wore a sweat suit that many of the slightly overweight or love-handled Italians do within the outer boroughs.
2002 — Sabine Durrant, Having it and Eating It, Riverhead Books (2002), →ISBN, page 21:
"She said you were handsome when you were sixteen. She hasn't seen you now you're old and gray and love-handled."
2005 — Chuck Crisafulli & Kyra Thompson, Go to Hell: A Heated History of the Underworld, Simon Spotlight Entertainment (2005), →ISBN, page 109:
In a theoretical twist that would explain all those late-night infomercials for various ab and bun contraptions, Socrates says that because the plane of the afterlife is so much finer and more wondrous than earthly existence, one of the primary punishments for a wicked soul is to be kicked right back into an earthly, bodily, love-handled existence.
2008 — Gerri Larkin, Plant Seed, Pull Weed: Nurturing the Garden of Your Life, HarperOne (2008), →ISBN, page 30:
Not a single one of us, even on our worst saggy, fat, love-handled, pizza-bellied, bad-breath days is a loser.
Automatic doors, spell-checkers, microwave ovens, virtual reality, and free home delivery — every innovation a love-handled advocate for live lived in the seated position.
2009 — Sarah Wilson, Better Than Sex Cake, iUniverse (2009), →ISBN, page 178:
And her dream was to find a slim love-handled man, the kind with hard bones and a tendency to flee from time to time: something she called space.
2011 — Zachary Michael Jack, Let There Be Pebble: A Middle-Handicapper's Year in America's Garden of Golf, University of Nebraska Press (2011), →ISBN, pages 76-77:
Our third, Rick, is a well-tanned, dark-haired, love-handled Ray Romano look-alike wearing wraparound sunglasses and black warm-up pants that swish whenever he takes a step.
