fat

(derogatory, sometimes)(sometimes derogatory) Carrying more fat than usual on one's body; plump; not lean or thin.

The fat man had problems going through the door.

The fattest pig should yield the most meat.

1932, New Orleans (La.) Board of Health, Vox Sanitatis While Hennessey is pouring the milk, the fat guy with the big pot-belly, will come over and write a lot of junk in his little book.

Thick; large.

The fat wallets of the men from the city brought joy to the peddlers.

Bulbous; rotund.

Bountiful.

Oily; greasy; unctuous; rich (said of food).

(obsolete)Exhibiting the qualities of a fat animal; coarse; heavy; gross; dull; stupid.

1855 July 21, Ralph Waldo Emerson, letter to Walter Whitman making our western wits fat & mean

Fertile; productive.

a fat soil; a fat pasture

Rich; producing a large income; desirable.

a fat benefice; a fat office;  a fat job

Abounding in riches; affluent; fortunate.

, "Why Christ's Doctrine was Rejected" persons grown fat and wealthy by a long and successful imposture

(dated)(dated, printing) Of a character which enables the compositor to make large wages; said of matter containing blank, cuts, or many leads, etc.

a fat take; a fat page

(golf) Being a shot in which the ground is struck before the ball.

(theater) Of a role: significant; major; meaty.

(uncountable, usually)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.

(countable, usually)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.

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.

(uncountable, usually)That part of an organization deemed wasteful.

We need to trim the fat in this company

(slang, uncountable, usually)An erection.

I saw Daniel crack a fat.

(uncountable, usually)(golf) A poorly played shot where the ball is struck by the top part of the club head. (see also thin, shank, toe)

(uncountable, usually)The best or richest productions; the best part.

to live on the fat of the land

(dated, uncountable, usually)(dated, printing) Work containing much blank, or its equivalent, and therefore profitable to the compositor.

(derogatory, informal, uncountable, usually)A fat person.

Prefer military, bodybuilders, jocks. No smokers or fats please.

(Australia, uncountable, usually)A beef cattle fattened for sale.

(obsolete)A large tub or vessel for water, wine, or other liquids; a cistern.

(obsolete)A dry measure, generally equal to nine bushels.

A fop or dandy.

(archaic, transitive)To make fat; to fatten.

kill the fatted calf

(archaic, intransitive)To become fat; to fatten.

(transitive)(transitive, golf) To hit (a golf ball) with a fat shot.