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ADJECTIVE fat COMPARATIVE fatter SUPERLATIVE fattest
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What does fat mean?
Definitions in simple English

fat

If a person or animal is fat, it is big and heavy because it has too much fat. I got really fat when I was in university because I ate every meal at McDonalds.

fat

animal tissue with a high oil content, used for long-term storage of energy. Let's get the light cheese. It only has 15% fat. The regular cheese has 35%.

fat

having an (over)abundance of flesh he hadn't remembered how fat she was having a relatively large diameter a fat rope a soft greasy substance occurring in organic tissue and consisting of a mixture of lipids (mostly triglycerides) pizza has too much fat (= fatty tissue) a kind of body tissue containing stored fat that serves as a source of energy; it also cushions and insulates vital organs fatty tissue protected them from the severe cold (= fertile, productive, rich) marked by great fruitfulness fertile farmland a fat land a productive vineyard rich soil (= juicy) lucrative a juicy contract a nice fat job (= fatty) containing or composed of fat fatty food fat tissue (= plump, plump out) make fat or plump We will plump out that poor starving child (= fatness) excess bodily weight she disliked fatness in herself as well as in others

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fat · verb

Examples fat examples

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Simple sentences

That man is skinny, but his wife is fat.
A fat white cat sat on a wall and watched them with sleepy eyes.
Don't allow yourself to become fat.
Don't get fat.
Your dog is very fat.
That girl over there is very fat.
Very few fat men have long noses.
Do you think I'm fat?
I used to be fat.
I'm fat.
Am I fat?
I'm so fat.
If you eat too much, you'll become fat.
If you eat too much, you will get fat.
You will get fat if you eat too much.
Eating too much fat is supposed to cause heart disease.
Their cattle are all fat.
Becoming too fat is not good for one's health.
Don't eat so much. You'll get fat.
That will do us a fat lot of good.
The man was too fat to move by himself.
That fat girl consumes too much sugary food.
If you don't get more exercise, you'll get fat.
No matter how much I eat, I never get fat.
Where is the fat located?
I am getting fat because I eat a lot of sweets.

Movie subtitles

We will listen to the fat white guy!
Could be a fat embolus in his lungs.
Uh, you know, uh, two-piece, halter, mesh dress might work well for you very lean ladies, but, yeah, not for this festival of back fat going on.
Yeah, you're not that disgustingly fat.
I have no fat on my body.
I am Ahab. And the Tooth Fairy, that fat piece of shit, is my white whale.
After Sofren had eaten the fat herring and emptied the bottle of schnapps, he felt very strange.
Not when I can get nice, fat spiders!
That fat, bulbous neighbor of mine, Mister..
No doubt you'll think I'm very fat-headed, my young friend.
Thinks he'll get me, huh? Fat chance.
You know, the fat one that Dr. Talbot gave me.
It's not the Senate I'm worried about but their fat wives.
That was your fault, fat-head!
Fat chance!
And the Tooth Fairy, that fat piece of shit, is my white whale.
It's not fair that I'm burdened with these fat sacks.
My subcutaneous fat can envelop any kind of attack they throw at me like child's play.
The new house has got a fat cat. Do you know him?
Thin or fat, small, tall or burly, handsome and chic, shy or even surly.
Fat lot you care.
Fat chance.
We can settle down for life and live on the fat of the land.
Then he took Wynant's body and buried it with another man's clothes. a fat man's clothes, to throw us off the track.
This one carried the wreath. He was fat!
He's getting fat, the dirty, thieving.
I'm fat.
And you're fat.
She'll get sick, and get a fat belly.
There's a fat one!
The seventh is. fat.
No, you just sat in my uterus giving me heartburn and making me look like a big fat pig.
That is the sound of my body defeating fat is all that is.
She was five months pregnant when she got married, so she decided to get rid of all of her disgusting fat clothes.
You're getting awful fat.
I should worry. If I get too fat I'll get married and retire.

News and current affairs

Ministers are too busy recovering from their trauma to think about paying fat fees for big new international bond issues.
Most people are aware that high-fat diets, too much alcohol, smoking, promiscuous sex, and recreational drugs, while pleasant, can ruin one's health.
Individual variations in body fat and, worryingly, disposition to psychosis, means that you cannot predict how much will affect any person at any time.
And, with trillions of dollars swirling around global financial markets, this predictability creates a fat target, with investors willing to make massive bets when they are pretty sure they are right, even if the profit per dollar is small.
Over time, if uncorrected, major depression can cause such conditions as progressive mineral loss from bones, accumulation of abdominal fat, increased blood platelet reactivity, and increased risk of cardiovascular disease.
This is not to diminish the value of some of the lesser evils - low-fat milk and yogurt, for example.
In the US, large companies were fat and lazy until a new generation of bosses like Jack Welch at General Electric took over and played rough.
This curriculum, exported Westward by fat Saudi subsidies, is heavily punctuated with denunciations of the infidels and calls to jihad.
Venezuela now pines for the fat OPEC years of the 1970s--which it missed, because it neglected to develop its oil industry.
There he is, vulnerable, fat, and weak, but we expect strength.
The rats have it good; the one I accidentally stepped upon was already fat.
Considerable evidence exists for harmful effects of trans fat intake.
In 2004, Denmark became the first country to legislate limits on trans fat content of foods, largely eliminating industrial trans fats from all foods (including restaurants) in that country.
Extremely low levels of trans fat intake are associated with significantly increased risk of heart disease.
The genius of Clinton and Blair was to combine genuine concern for the underprivileged with an unseemly devotion to the fat cats of Wall Street, the City of London, and some murkier places, too.
Epidemics caused by fat are now manifest: Type 2 diabetes, increased rates of heart and cardiovascular disease, and notably more cancers, such as breast cancer.
But are people really so unhealthily fat?
The older we become, the fatter we get, no matter what we eat - though this seems to conflict with the ob-gen argument that we need to get fat to avoid starvation.
Finally, obesity can be the result of infection by an agent that makes us get fat.
Today, this agent is the adenovirus 36 (Ad-36), which stimulates the growth and reproduction of fat cells, as well as causing immature fat cells to mature more quickly, at least in chickens.
So, are we getting too fat?
This is not to say that there are no health problems associated with fat, but we have created a moral panic about the impact of increased weight on society, on the family, and on our happiness.
To see a world-wide epidemic of fat caused by a conspiracy of fast-food producers and our genes strikes one as weird: but the dieting culture relies on the sense that we must control this epidemic.
And we have deemed fat the major public health risk in our world and fat people the cause of a range of social problems, from placing stress on health-care systems to posing a risk to their own families.