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chubby_chaser

chubby chaser

English

Noun

chubby chaser (plural chubby chasers)

  1. (informal) A person with a sexual attraction to someone that is obese.
    • 1996, Richard Klein, Eat Fat, Pantheon Books (1996), ISBN 9780679441977, unknown page:
      Systematic surveys have confirmed that obese women generally prefer thin men and take the same disdainful attitude toward fat as most people do. In their eyes, as in those of most people, the chubby chaser is a menace, not a mensch: a real man doesn't love fat.
    • 2012, Lesley Kinzel, Two Whole Cakes: How to Stop Dieting and Learn to Love Your Body, Feminist Press (2012), ISBN 9781558617940, page 47:
      I ran into a lot of bog-standard chubby chasers (known also as “fat admirers”) at the goth club—straight men who are quietly queered by their attraction to fat women, and who seek out subcultural spaces where no one judges their proclivities.
    • 2014, Jason Whitesel, Fat Gay Men: Girth, Mirth, and the Politics of Stigma, New York University Press (2014), ISBN 9780814708385, page 10:
      In this farce, a fat Cleveland businessman runs away to Manhattan in search of a hiding place from his mobster brother-in-law and unsuspectingly checks into a gay hotel. There, an overzealous chubby-chaser stalks him, literally chasing him around the bathhouse.

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