DOUBLE CHIN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does double chin mean? 

• DOUBLE CHIN (noun)
  The noun DOUBLE CHIN has 1 sense:

1. a fold of fatty tissue under the chin

  Familiarity information: DOUBLE CHIN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DOUBLE CHIN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A fold of fatty tissue under the chin

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

buccula; double chin

Hypernyms ("double chin" is a kind of...):

chin; mentum (the protruding part of the lower jaw)

 Context examples 

Mr. Larkins (a gruff old gentleman with a double chin, and one of his eyes immovable in his head) is fraught with interest to me.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The newcomers were Colonel Lysander Stark and a short thick man with a chinchilla beard growing out of the creases of his double chin, who was introduced to me as Mr. Ferguson.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She had Roman features and a double chin, disappearing into a throat like a pillar: these features appeared to me not only inflated and darkened, but even furrowed with pride; and the chin was sustained by the same principle, in a position of almost preternatural erectness.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Why that, you know, he returned, rubbing his double chin again, can't naturally be expected.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Thus assisted, she skipped down with much agility, and began to tie her double chin into her bonnet.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Her chin, which was what is called a double chin, was so fat that it entirely swallowed up the strings of her bonnet, bow and all.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

This waiter, who was middle-aged and spare, looked for help to a waiter of more authority—a stout, potential old man, with a double chin, in black breeches and stockings, who came out of a place like a churchwarden's pew, at the end of the coffee-room, where he kept company with a cash-box, a Directory, a Law-list, and other books and papers.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)