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pear-shaped

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Adjective

  1. Having a shape of a (typical western) pear, or in cross-section, like the cross-section of a pear.
  2. Having a shape of a (typical western) pear, or in cross-section, like the cross-section of a pear: Having gynoid fat distribution, not android fat distribution.
  3. rich, mellow, sonorous
  4. Wrong, awry, usually in the phrase go pear-shaped.

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