Proper noun

1. A fictional character from the original Star Wars trilogy. Head of an organized crime gang on the planet Tatooine.
   • 1995, George E. Marcus. Technoscientific Imaginaries, ‎ page 192

     At eight A.M. word had arrived that Reitherman had taken over and that his gooms were coming to clear the buildings. Everybody was fired. Harmon communicated it to the remaining lab people by announcing, "Jabba the Hutt is on his way."

   • 1999, Marian Keyes, Under the Duvet: Shoes, Reviews, Having the Blues, Builders, Babies, Families, and Other Calamities, page 199

     But now that will never be—it's too late for the gym to give me the perfect body. All it can do is stem the Jabba the Hutt tide. But it's fine. Anyway, wheel out the birthday cake, I feel a Jabba the Hutt moment coming on.

   • 2001, Sheldon Siegel, Special Circumstances‎, page 11

     He nods in the direction of our client, Vince Russo, an oily-looking man about Joel's age who has jammed his Jabba the Hutt torso into the chair at the table next to Holmes.

   • 2005, Mark Latham, The Latham Diaries‎, page 274

     Janine says that Oakes is the only one who ran hard. That would be right, I never get a break from Jabba the Hutt, that's a given in this job.

   • 2007, David Talbot, Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years‎. page 215

     "There is no reason that the people who ask that sort of question have a more elevated moral standing than us," he [Kissinger] intones in his guttural, Jabba the Hutt voice.

   • 2008, Hadley Freeman, The Meaning of Sunglasses, page 117

     If the idea of wearing something voluminous sparks worries that people will assume you are Jabba the Hutt beneath the layers, take succor from the fact that your non-Jabba-esque legs will be on view, so people will probably have a good idea of your actual general shape.

   • 2009, Theresa Rebeck, Three Girls and Their Brother‎, page 267

     "I think she looks like Jabba the Hutt. I've been calling her Jabba the Hutt in my head. Don't you think she looks like Jabba the Hutt, or some science project, some science project gone hideously awry, in that green dress?"