Search the newspaper archives and it’s only when you get to 2004 that the “moob” heaves forth into the bra of popular culture. The word crops up as early as 1985 but without any reference to droopy chests – “moob”, or “boom” spelt backwards, was coined to describe a sagging economy (it never caught on). The second entry, from 1988, appears to be the result of hasty editing – an article from …