fatadjective
uk/fæt/us/fæt/fatter, fattestfat adjective (BIG)
A1 having a lot of flesh on the body:
Like most women, she thinks she's fat.
I hate my fat thighs.
He eats all the time but he never gets fat.
thick or large:
He passed me a fat envelope full of money.
Some producers of mineral water have made fat profits.
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- If you feed your dog on cakes and biscuits, it's not surprising he's so fat.
- Runners come in all shapes and sizes - fat and thin, short and tall.
- He pulled out a big fat wallet stuffed with bank notes.
- A grub looks like a short fat worm.
- Are you suggesting (that) I look fat in these trousers?
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Animal physiology: fat or well-built
- ample
- baby fat
- beefy
- blubber
- broad in the beam idiom
- buxom
- chubby
- dumpy
- fatness
- fatten sb/sth up
- fatty
- heavyset
- husky
- obese
- obesity
- pudgy
- puppy fat
- roly-poly
- rotund
- well built
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fat adjective (NO)
[ before noun ] informal UK used in some phrases to mean very little or none:
A fat lot of use you are! (= You are not useful in any way.)
He knows it upsets me, but a fat lot he cares (= he doesn't care).
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Something, anything, nothing, and everything
- across-the-board
- anything
- aught
- bazillion
- bugger
- fresh
- nil
- none
- not a dicky bird idiom
- not a sausage idiom
- nothing
- nowt
- sweet
- sweet fanny adams idiom
- the whole bit idiom
- the whole lot idiom
- what with one thing and another idiom
- whit
- zero
- zip
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Idiom(s)
fat chance
fatnoun
uk/fæt/us/fæt/[ U ] the substance under the skin of humans and animals that stores energy and keeps them warm:
body fat
Women have a layer of subcutaneous fat (= fat under the skin), which provides them with better insulation than men.
B2 [ C or U ] a solid or liquid substance from animals or plants and used especially in cooking:
This product contains no animal fat.
vegetable fats
More examples
- Eating too much fat causes your arteries to clog up.
- Try to avoid foods which contain a lot of fat.
- A diet that is high in fat can lead to obesity.
- The dog had rolls of fat along its neck.
- Streaky bacon contains strips of fat.
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Substances & structures in the body
- abductor
- accessorius
- adductor
- agonist
- amyloid
- atheroma
- caecum
- grey matter
- gyrus
- hallucis
- hilum
- hilus
- lymph vessel
- peptic
- periosteum
- peritoneal
- peritoneum
- phosphatase
- vitreous humour
- xiphoid
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Fats & oils in food & cooking
Idiom(s)
the fat is in the fire
live off the fat of the land