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fat

UK/fæt/ US/ˈfɛt/ common informal slang
adjective (6) noun (3) verb (1)

adjective

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having a relatively large diameter

  • “a fat rope”
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3.

containing or composed of fat

  • “fatty food”
  • “fat tissue”
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4.

lucrative

  • “a juicy contract”
  • “a nice fat job”
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5.

marked by great fruitfulness

  • “fertile farmland”
  • “a fat land”
  • “a productive vineyard”
  • “rich soil”
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6.

a chubby body

  • “the boy had a rounded face and fat cheeks”
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noun

1.

a soft greasy substance occurring in organic tissue and consisting of a mixture of lipids (mostly triglycerides)

  • “pizza has too much fat”
2.

a kind of body tissue containing stored fat that serves as a source of energy; adipose tissue also cushions and insulates vital organs

  • “fatty tissue protected them from the severe cold”
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3.

excess bodily weight

  • “she found fatness disgusting in herself as well as in others”
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verb

1.

make fat or plump

  • “We will plump out that poor starving child”
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Origin

From Middle English fat, from Old English fæt (“vat, vessel, jar, cup, casket, division”), from Proto-Germanic *fatą (“vessel”), from Proto-Indo-European *pod- (“vessel”). Cognate with Dutch vat (“barrel, vessel”), German Fass (“barrel, drum”), Swedish fat (“barrel, dish, cask”). See vat.

Phrases

  • animal fat
  • baby fat
  • bacon fat
  • beige fat
  • big fat
  • big fat zero
  • big, fat, hairy deal
  • body fat
  • brown fat
  • buccal fat extraction
  • buccal fat removal
  • cut it fat

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