fat

UK /ˈfæt/ US /ˈfæt/
noun 13adj 5verb 3

Definitions

adj

1

Carrying more fat than usual on one's body; plump; not lean or thin.

The fat man had problems going through the door.

The fattest pig should yield the most meat.

2

Thick; large.

The fat wallets of the men from the city brought joy to the peddlers.

The thickest salmon, the curdiest trout, the fattest partridge, and the most tender woodcock smoked on his board, and, rumor said, cooked with a delicacy that more pretentious houses could not rival.

3

Bulbous; rotund.

So this was my future home, I thought! […] Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.

4

Bountiful.

5

Oily; greasy; unctuous; rich (said of food).

noun

1

A specialized animal tissue with high lipid content, used for long-term storage of energy: fat tissue.

Mammals that hibernate have plenty of fat to keep them warm during the winter.

2

A specialized animal tissue with high lipid content, used for long-term storage of energy: fat tissue.

Ask the butcher for a few pounds of fat for our greens.

3

A lipid that is solid at room temperature, which fat tissue contains and which is also found in the blood circulation; sometimes, a refined substance chemically resembling such naturally occurring lipids.

Dietary fat is not the evil that it was once misapprehended to be; carbs are increasingly recognized as a bigger driver of atherosclerosis via chronic insulin resistance and the vascular processes that cascade from it.

In fact, the fats that are most stable and least likely to oxidize with heat are the highly saturated fats we've long been told to avoid—lard, tallow, butter, and coconut and palm oils.

4

That part of an organization deemed wasteful.

We need to trim the fat in this company

5

An erection.

I saw Daniel crack a fat.

verb

1

To make fat; to fatten.

kill the fatted calf

2

To become fat; to fatten.

3

To hit (a golf ball) with a fat shot.

“On this one hole, Donald hits his second and fats it into the water,” Faxon remembers. “But he quickly says to me, ‘Hey, throw me another ball; they weren’t looking.’ So I do. But he fats that one into the water, too. So he drives up and drops where he should’ve dropped the first time and hits it on the green.”

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