How to pronounce “fat”

Meaning

• [Adjective]
• Carrying more fat than usual on one's body; plump; not lean or thin.
• Thick; large.
• Bulbous; rotund.
• Bountiful.
• Oily; greasy; unctuous; rich (said of food).
• (obsolete) Exhibiting the qualities of a fat animal; coarse; heavy; gross; dull; stupid.
• Fertile; productive.
• Rich; producing a large income; desirable.
• Abounding in riches; affluent; fortunate.
• (dated, printing) Of a character which enables the compositor to make large wages; said of matter containing blank, cuts, or many leads, etc.
• (golf) Being a shot in which the ground is struck before the ball.
• (theater) Of a role: significant; major; meaty.
• (slang) Being greatly or substantially such; real.
• (computing) Carrying additional data or functionality.
• Alternative form of phat.
• [Noun]
• (uncountable) A specialized animal tissue with high lipid content, used for long-term storage of energy: fat tissue.
• (countable) 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.
• (slang) An erection.
• (golf) 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.
• (dated, printing) Work containing much blank, or its equivalent, and therefore profitable to the compositor.
• (informal, derogatory) A fat person.
• A beef cattle fattened for sale.
• [Verb]
• (transitive, archaic) To make fat; to fatten.
• (intransitive, archaic) To become fat; to fatten.
• (transitive, golf) To hit (a golf ball) with a fat shot.

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