Bingo wings is the build-up of fat and/or extra skin that hangs from the underside of the upper arms (i.e. over the triceps). It occurs most frequently in elderly and overweight people. The problem may also occur after significant weight loss, with flaps of loose skin remaining. The itself term apparently originated from the bingo hall custom of raising one's arm aloft and bellowing "House!" The relevance of the term is that when claiming a bingo prize with arms aloft, the fat around the triceps flaps around like little wings.
The term is included in the most recent edition of the Chambers Dictionary.
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“His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly’s wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred. Later he became conscious of his damaged wings and of their construction and he learned to think and could not fly any more because the love of flight was gone and he could only remember when it had been effortless.”
—Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)