fat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: făt
ipa: /fæt/
rhymes: -æt
homophone: phat
Forms: form: fats
Etymology: From Middle English fat, fatt, fatte, from the adjective above, and possibly from Old English fǣt (“fat”, recorded once), from Proto-West Germanic *fait, from Proto-Germanic *faitą, *faitaz (“fat”).
Senses: examples: text: Mammals that hibernate have plenty of fat to keep them warm during the winter.
glosses: A specialized animal tissue with high lipid content, used for long-term storage of energy: fat tissue.
examples: text: Ask the butcher for a few pounds of fat for our greens.
glosses: A specialized animal tissue with high lipid content, used for long-term storage of energy: fat tissue.
Such tissue as food: the fatty portion of (or trimmings from) meat cuts.
examples: text: 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.
text: 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.
ref: 2018, Kristin Lawless, Formerly known as food, →ISBN, page 32:
glosses: 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.
examples: text: We need to trim the fat in this company
glosses: That part of an organization deemed wasteful.
examples: text: I saw Daniel crack a fat.
glosses: An erection.
topics: golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A poorly played shot where the ball is struck by the top part of the club head. (see also thin, shank, toe)
examples: text: to live on the fat of the land
glosses: The best or richest productions; the best part.
topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: Work containing much blank, or its equivalent, and therefore profitable to the compositor.
examples: text: Prefer military, bodybuilders, jocks. No smokers or fats please.
ref: 1996, Roger Stone, "Local Swing Fever", highlighted by National Enquirer in September 1996 and Daily Mail in January 2019
glosses: A fat person.
examples: text: Before riding over to the fats we'll have a look about us.
ref: 1934, Henry G. Lamond, An Aviary On The Plains, page 7:
glosses: A beef cattle fattened for sale.
Synonyms: sense: animal tissue
word: adipose tissue
sense: animal tissue
english: in animals; derogatory slang when used of human fat
translation: in animals; derogatory slang when used of human fat
word: lard
sense: animal tissue
english: perivisceral type
translation: perivisceral type
word: suet
sense: substance chemically resembling the oils in animal fat
word: grease
sense: substance chemically resembling the oils in animal fat
word: lard
sense: fat person
word: fatty
word: fatso see also Thesaurus:fat person
word: blubber
word: fat
word: flab
word: speck
word: weight
Hypernyms: word: tissue
Hyponyms: word: grease
word: oil
word: adeps
word: baby fat
word: puppy fat
Derived terms: animal fat
antifat
baby fat
backfat
bacon fat
beige fat
bodyfat
body fat
brown fat
buccal fat extraction
buccal fat removal
butterfat
caul fat
chew the fat
crack a fat
death fat
deep-fat-fry
deep-fat fryer
defat
fatback
fatberg
fatburger
fat camp
fat chance
fat-chewing
fat content
fat-free
fatgraph
fat is flavor
fat is flavour
fatless
fatlike
fatliquor
fatliquoring
fat of the land
fat pad
fat sandwich
fat-soluble
fatten
fat-wash
fat-washing
fat washing
full-fat
green fat
hamfat
infinifat
leaf fat
low-fat
macaw fat
marrowfat
milkfat
mule fat
nonfat
otoba fat
palm fat
polyunsaturated fat
pull someone's fat out of the fire
pull the fat out of the fire
puppy fat
reduced-fat milk
saturated fat
the fat hit the fire
trans fat
unsaturated fat
vegetable fat
white fat
winterfat
wool fat
yellow fat disease
Related terms: word: lipic
word: lipid
word: obese
word: overweight
word: paunch