# Dunlap? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 21, 2011, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dunlap/572086 "2011-02-21T04:25:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2011, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dunlap/572086/1 "2011-02-21T04:25:01Z")
If a person, most commonly, a guy, was said to have a dunlap, would you have any idea what that was? Just some filler to keep the answers from showing up in a spoiler mouseover and spoiling the surprise. Don’t you just hate when that happens? It’s like when you pick up a book and you’re on Page 25, and you’re just getting engrossed in it when someone says “Oh yeah, I read that last week. I cried for three hours when Dumbledore died.” Grr! A dunlap, or the alternate spelling, dunlop, is an affliction primarily of men. Overweight men whose fat bellies dun lap over their belts. The female equivalent is naturally, the muffintop. ---
**Author:** ![Onomatopoeia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/onomatopoeia/32/4145_2.png) [@Onomatopoeia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onomatopoeia)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2011, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dunlap/572086/2 "2011-02-21T04:45:51Z")
> [@gotpasswords](#): > > I cried for three hours when Dumbledore died. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2011, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dunlap/572086/3 "2011-02-21T05:00:18Z")
We always refered to it as Dunlop’s disease, or furniture disease (when your chest drops into your drawers). ---
**Author:** ![Peremensoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@Peremensoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peremensoe)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2011, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dunlap/572086/4 "2011-02-21T05:11:18Z")
A synonym for “spare [tire](http://www.dunloptires.com/),” I would think. ---
**Author:** ![Snickers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Snickers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snickers)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2011, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dunlap/572086/5 "2011-02-21T16:08:36Z")
Huh. I thought it was referring to tires, as on my car. Although I think my current ones are Continentals, used to be Dunlop was one of the few tire manufacturers that made tires for my car. It’s got an off sized wheel, which is annoying. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2011, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dunlap/572086/6 "2011-02-21T16:12:17Z")
Yup, I know this one. Introduced to it by the father of my college girlfriend; it was one of his favorite jokes. ---
**Author:** ![NinetyWt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/cc9497/32.png) [@NinetyWt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinetyWt)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2011, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dunlap/572086/7 "2011-02-21T16:42:58Z")
If you said he had “a dunlap”, no, unless I might think of tires. If you said he had “dunlap’s disease” I would know exactly what you meant. I’ve heard this all my life in the South. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2011, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dunlap/572086/8 "2011-02-21T17:45:52Z")
> [@Lynn\_Bodoni](#): > > We always refered to it as Dunlop’s disease Yeah, that’s the way I’ve heard of it. ---
**Author:** ![filling\_pages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b9bd4f/32.png) [@filling\_pages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/filling_pages)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2011, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dunlap/572086/9 "2011-02-21T17:55:20Z")
Also known as a “dicky do.” As in, “his belly sticks out more than his dicky do.” ---
**Author:** ![zweisamkeit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zweisamkeit/32/4360_2.png) [@zweisamkeit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zweisamkeit)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2011, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dunlap/572086/10 "2011-02-21T18:05:05Z")
I know what a Dunlop is, but I’d disagree that the female equivalent is a muffin top. I mean, I _guess_ technically it is, since the muffin top spills over. But it has more of a feeling of all-over (meaning it definitely includes the side hip area, and above the butt). My gut (haw haw!) response to “what’s the girl version of a Dunlop?” would be either a “matron’s apron” or a “gunt”. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2011, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dunlap/572086/11 "2011-02-21T18:34:24Z")
> [@Lynn\_Bodoni](#): > > We always refered to it as Dunlop’s disease, or furniture disease (when your chest drops into your drawers). Rarely suffered by the same men who have Noassatall.