The Thiccctionary

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A Note from the Editors

This publication catalogues thiccc things. The word is the internet's. It uses thiccc, alongside dummy thiccc and built different, to describe human bodies. We have confiscated the vocabulary and applied it, with the full apparatus of a reference work, to everything that is not a body: cargo planes that carry everything in the back, championship pumpkins, the rear fenders of a dually pickup, the double bass.

There is one rule, and it is older than most of the staff. No bodies. No people. Every photograph is of a thing. The Founding Charter put it in writing in 1974, and the Editor-in-Chief has filed every proposal to reopen the question since.

The standard is curves, not size. A cruise ship is large. A cruise ship is not thiccc. The board has turned away a covered bridge, a rocket and an aircraft carrier on these grounds, and will do so again. Big is a measurement. Thiccc is a silhouette.

If we have done the work, you will laugh once, read three more entries, and then, weeks from now, in a Costco parking lot, watching a Ford F-450 dually negotiate a U-turn, call what you are seeing thiccc, and not be entirely sure why. It is the only review this board has ever cared about.

For the word itself, its definition, etymology, and the reasoning behind the third c, see thiccc, adj.

Bertram Whitmore, Publisher, writing from the Margaret IV. Thiccctionary, Vol. I.