What is a chub n’ tuck?
The phrase “chub n’ tuck” is a metonym, a figure of speech used in rhetoric to define the act of a male tucking in his shirt to his pants. Now the chub n’ tuck is a simple maneuver, and when pulled off effectively, can denote confidence, acceptance, and power. When you encompass the chub n’ tuck, your embracing the curves of the male body. Now before I analyze the verbal sign of the chub n’ tuck, let’s break down the physicality of the chub n’ tuck, and how one can acquire the look.
The chub n’ tuck, whether it be the idea, the phrase, or the act, is a syntagm that consists of a set of paradigms. We have the chub, a metaphor for a large gut, the first paradigm; a pair of pants or shorts, the second paradigm; the shirt, and lastly our final ingredient being the tuck itself. Now before I continue, I just want to point out that unfortunately not everyone is born with a chub n’ tuck compatible physique. So if you want to pull off this look, you’re going to have to really make some wise clothing choices that allow for your belly to seem larger than it is, or you are going to have to gain some weight.
Now the perfect chub n’ tuck starts off mid waist with the rear pant waist drawn up high. You want the pant to ride up your buttocks forming a light crease between the cheeks, keeping the front side of the pants at waist level. Essentially the chub n’ tuck is not the belly hanging over the waistline, it’s the overall tuck being accentuated by the physique of the person’s stomach, in conjunction with the tuck itself.
Now when tucking the chub, you simply can’t play it coy. You can’t be modest with the tuck. If you’re going to enable yourself with the chub n’ tuck look, you have to have the same mentality that a person has when attempting a mullet. The good old saying: “business in the front, and party in the back” is the ideology any given male would need to have, in order to pull off a proper tuck of the chub.
Someone who lives life with a chub n’ tuck enabled outfit, is someone who knows how to play to their strengths. To chub n’ tuck, is to be sexy. It’s signifies confidence and strength to everyone around you. Being bold, being beautiful, and most importantly, being self-aware about your successes. If someone says to you “hey, nice chub n’ tuck!” what they are basically saying is “hey, nice play!” or to put it into more defined terms, they are telling you that you are pragmatic. There is nothing more practical than a well accentuated tuck holding down a hefty male core physique.
This is because the chub n’ tuck isn’t just a bold connotation, it is a power play. It’s aiming right for your opponent’s king on the chess board. It’s saying to those around you that while they have been playing checkers, you have been playing chess for years. The chub n’ tuck denotes your lack of concern with what paradigms are accepted in society. You paved your own road, you make others not look twice, and you are just that guy. That guy with the chub n’ tuck. You assert comfortable living, and you assert it well.
So when someone says “hey, tuck in your shirt,” or “I tucked in my shirt,” just know that those statements are completely separate from “I’m tucking my chub,” or “nice chub n’ tuck.” I understand that the phrases in comparison aren’t as easily distinguishable as the physical syntagms and paradigms themselves, but in actuality none of them in either case even matter. This is simply due to concrete facts trumping perceptions.
The chub n’ tuck is a reality, whilst tucking in a shirt is conformity to a media driven social definition. The chub n’ tuck is the opposite of conforming, it ignores those societal theories of what’s accepted truthfully or falsely in absolutes, and has you just living. You have the accentuated chub being painted by the tuck. Magnificence in simplicity. The chub n’ tuck.