Green’s Dictionary of Slang

an exceptionally fat man.

1676		Etherege Man of Mode I i: How now double tripe, what news do you bring?
1785		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue n.p.: Don’t flash your ivory but shut your potatoe trap and keep your guts warm, the devil loves hot tripes [...] Tripe. The belly, or guts. Mr. Double Tripe; a fat man.
1811		Lex. Balatronicum.
c.1825		Friar and Boy 35: Likewise the friar who / Had tore his very double tripes, / His trolly-loollies too.