Definition of "cankle" [cankle]

• An obese or otherwise swollen ankle that blends into the calf without clear demarcation. (noun)

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• "There were a nice pair pf pewter-y flats with a little criss-cross ankle strap, but the strap wasn't looking so good, now that I'm in cankle-world, so I left those behind for someone less swollen than I."
• "The word cankle entered the pop-culture lexicon around the time actor Jason Alexander's character in the 2001 movie "Shallow Hal" used the expression."
• "But maybe the nastiness and "cankle" talk represents its own kind of progress"