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  • Sarahundefined Offline
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    from Latin obtusus, blunt, dull, from past participle of obtundere

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      The state of being simultaneously high and in a reclined position

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        When someone bends backwards and their body makes an angle greater than 90 degrees.
        Seen in [Exorcist] movies and an episode of [Family Guy] making fun of a scene from [Shawshank Redemption].

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          adj: fat, used to describe any extremely overwieght person. This is due to that fact that an obtuse angle in math is a big fat angle over 90º.

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            big, round,

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              an adjective a person uses who feels large or overweight

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                An [angle] between 90 and 180 degrees. Used in math. Other angles include:
                [right angle]/[right]
                [acute angle]/[acute]
                [straight angle]/[straight]
                [reflex angle]/[reflex]

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                  Ob-too-s
                  [Adj]: An [ironic] term describing something as extremely big or in extreme [excess].

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                    When [women] are [curved] in all [the right] places.

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                      (of an angle) more than 90° and less than 180°

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