Noun. A sight common among the morbidly obese. The point at which one is so obese that there is no thinning of the leg between the calf and the ankle, which creates a sense of fusion between the two. Consequently "Cankle" comes from the fusion of CAlf and aNKLE.
by David May 24, 2004
The absence of a defined ankle on a person - whereby the calf of the leg merges directly into the foot. The calf appears to replace the ankle - hence the term "cankle".
by Flibbity Shibby April 27, 2004
Contrary to popular belief, you don't really have to be fat to have cankles (though they are cute on chubbish girls), you just have to have boringly straight legs with no middleman, that is, no tapering between the calf and the heel. Looks less severe on skinny folk.
Alternate spelling: Kankle
Alternate spelling: Kankle
by SirOnThePhoneALot April 10, 2009
Its when your so fat that you cant tell where the calf ends and the ankle begins. One of Bill Clintons number 1 sayings.
Skinny Guy: What the hell is up with your leg.
Fat Chick: I dont know.
Bill Clinton: Thats a cankle.
Fat Chick: I dont know.
Bill Clinton: Thats a cankle.
by SnipeAnator April 11, 2008
by Baba booey November 23, 2018
When your calf and ankle merge into one super joint. Tom Burg has some cankles. See Summer Sausage or No Ankles Burg.
by Die_Tasse February 09, 2005
The area in affected female legs where the calf meets the foot in an abrupt, nontapering terminus; medical cause: adipose tissue surrounding the soleus tendon, probably congenital, worsened by weight gain and improved in appearance only by boots. From the English "calf" meaning wide portion of the lower leg, and "ankle" meaning slender joint of leg with foot.
by Elizabeth Bennett September 12, 2003