Bulge

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The term bulge may refer to several things:

[edit] In the human body

• Bulgepants - worn famously by Tony Bolger during Supremo Gopheros world tour of Romford 2006.

Imply a pair of trousers worn too tight, often because of the obesity of the wearer.

• Slang to describe the way a man's penis is visible from underneath his clothing (jeans, pants, swim trunks, tapered sweat pants, etc.)
• An extension of a surface due to internal pressure and localized weakness of the containment, as in blood vessels forming an aneurysm.
• Localized fat deposits, typically at the sides above the hips ("love handles"), or at the belly (in humans).
• A protrusion of the skin, where the skin is pushed outward by muscle, or by skin being stretched over the eyeball or bone.

[edit] In astronomy

• A bulge, as in a tightly packed group of stars at the centre of spiral galaxies
• Equatorial bulge, a bulge a planet has around its equator due to rapid rotation, disorting it into an oblate spheroid
• Polar bulge, a bulge a planet (none in our Solar System have one) or moon has at its poles, disorting it into a prolate spheroid
• Tidal bulge, a bulge of land or water (on Earth) created by the pull of another object orbiting around it
• Tapered Bulge, as in a Tapered Leg Jeans or sweat pants.

[edit] Other

• A localized discontinuity in an extended military line as in the Battle of the Bulge, a major World War II battle.
• To swell or stick out; the part that swells or sticks out.
• Slang for a sudden, temporary increase in the price of a security, stock or debt obligation. Any temporary, significant increase, such as that in the volume of work.
• Not to be confused with a bilge pump; a pump responsible for removing sea and seep water from the bottom of ship hulls
• Ben Fischer.
• synonymn - the protrusion, Ben's brother.