Definition of "lardo" [lardo]

• An overweight person. (noun)

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• "That, friends, is what you call lardo, which is the Italian way to say lard, which is another name for pork fat."
• "At Dario Cecchini’s famous butcher shop in Panzano, the one featured in the best-selling kitchen memoir Heat, his version of lardo is whipped into a stiff, shiny paste that billows from his meat case like Miracle Whip."
• "Artisanal meat men in south Tuscany make a kind of lardo too, from the fat of plump, lovely Cinta Senese pigs, a local breed of black swine that look as if they have the white belts of Elvis impersonators wrapped around their midsections."