The deception of a fat girl taking a close-up picture of herself from above her head while looking upwards, making the face lard retreat and thus letting her appear to be skinny - hiding 90% of her tremendous corpus.

An extremely exposed cleavage is optional and prevalent.
- Woah, see this girl on (arbitrary website)! She's hot, right?
- No, I believe it's the iceberg effect...
by jondk November 10, 2011
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When you take a dump, it's nothing way solid, more like a pile that raises up above the water. 10% above water, 90% under water. Much like an iceberg.
by Metalhead Murphy August 3, 2009
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a fat person who takes a foto of themselves and he or she looks normal size according to their face picture, but when you meet them in person they are fat and obese.
she was so pretty on tinder, but the iceberg effect was very real, as she was an obese gordita in person.
by addake August 21, 2019
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Dating profile pics only from the neck up, carefully cropped and angled to hide someone's true size.
"Be careful. Those pics look great, but it could be the iceberg effect"
by Hotbox February 10, 2017
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