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/ˈkæŋkəl/ · noun
(originally slang, usually derogatory) An obese or otherwise swollen ankle that blends into the calf without clear demarcation..
Hey, all l’m saying is she’s got cankles, for God’s sake. What? Cankles! She’s got no ankles. It’s like the calf merged with the foot, cut out the middleman.
The “cankle” (or the appearance of not having an ankle, but the calf of the leg just connecting to the foot) is a look that many women have and most could live without.
They’d pass me magazines and ask how my cankle recovery was progressing. They’re ankles, not cankles. I don’t have cankles!
Now that's a cankle! Where does the calf fat end and the ankle fat begin? Who knows, that's the fun!
Stop saying I have cankles!
Laserassisted lipolysis for cankle remodelling: A prospective study in 30 patients. Lasers Med Sci 2014; 29:131–136. Leclère FM, Trelles M, MorenoMoraga J, Servell P, Unglaub F, Mordon SR. 980nm laser lipolysis (LAL): About 674[…]
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Cankle means (originally slang, usually derogatory) An obese or otherwise swollen ankle that blends into the calf without clear demarcation..
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Hey, all l’m saying is she’s got cankles, for God’s sake. What? Cankles! She’s got no ankles. It’s like the calf merged with the foot, cut out the middleman.
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