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iceberg effect 

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...
iceberg effect by jondk November 10, 2011
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iceberg effect 

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.
I just experienced the Iceberg Effect.

Iceberg Effect 

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"
Iceberg Effect by Hotbox February 10, 2017

iceberg effect 

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.
iceberg effect by addake August 21, 2019
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