fat
/fæt/ noun C2- 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.
- Such tissue as food: the fatty portion of (or trimmings from) meat cuts. · Ask the butcher for a few pounds of fat for our greens.
- 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.
- That part of an organization deemed wasteful. · We need to trim the fat in this company
- An erection. · I saw Daniel crack a fat.
- A poorly played shot where the ball is struck by the top part of the club head. (see also thin, shank, toe)
- The best or richest productions; the best part. · to live on the fat of the land
- Work containing much blank, or its equivalent, and therefore profitable to the compositor.
Plural fats
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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From that day the Hen became fat and sleek, and never once laid another egg.
The latter seemed to have resigned himself; he drew the corks, and partook largely of the fish with the garlic and fat.
“Well, it wasn’t a fat man, anyhow.
The Quadlings themselves, who were short and fat and looked chubby and good-natured, were dressed all in red, which showed bright against the green grass and the yellowing grain.
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