fat : Idioms & Phrases

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animal fat

  • noun any fat obtained from animals
    • animal fat is high in saturated fatty acids
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bone fat

  • noun fatty matter in bones extracted with solvents or by boiling or steaming; used chiefly in candles and cheap soaps and in lubricating greases
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chew the fat

  • verb talk socially without exchanging too much information
    shoot the breeze; chit-chat; confab; chitchat; jaw; claver; visit; chaffer; chat; natter; gossip; chatter; confabulate.
    • the men were sitting in the cafe and shooting the breeze
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cohune fat

  • noun semisolid fat from nuts of the cohune palm; used in cooking and soap making
    cohune-nut oil; cohune oil.
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deep-fat-fry

  • verb fry in deep fat
    • deep-fry the potato chips
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Dry fat

  • . See Dry vat (below).
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edible fat

  • noun oily or greasy matter making up the bulk of fatty tissue in animals and in seeds and other plant tissue
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Fat acid

  • . (Chem.) See Sebacic acid, under Sebacic.
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fat cat

  • noun a wealthy and privileged person
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fat cell

  • noun cells composed of fat
    adipose cell.
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fat chance

  • noun little or no chance of success
    slim chance.
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fat embolism

  • noun serious condition in which fat blocks an artery; fat can enter the blood stream after a long bone is fractured or if adipose tissue is injured or as a result of a fatty liver
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fat farm

  • noun a health spa that specializes in helping people lose weight
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fat hen

  • noun European plant naturalized in North America; often collected from the wild as a potherb
    allgood; Chenopodium bonus-henricus; wild spinach; good-king-henry.
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Fat lute

  • a mixture of pipe clay and oil for filling joints.
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fat metabolism

  • noun a metabolic process that breaks down ingested fats into fatty acids and glycerol and then into simpler compounds that can be used by cells of the body
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fat person

  • noun a rotund individual
    roly-poly; butterball; fatty; fatso.
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Fat series, Fatty series

  • (Chem.), the series of the paraffine hydrocarbons and their derivatives; the marsh gas or methane series.
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fat tuesday

  • noun a carnival held in some countries on Shrove Tuesday (the last day before Lent) but especially in New Orleans
    Mardi Gras.
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fat-brained

Fat"-brained` adjective
Definitions
  1. Dull of apprehension.
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fat-free

  • adjective without fat or fat solids
    nonfat; fatless.
    • nonfat or fat-free milk
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fat-kidneyed

Fat"-kid`neyed adjective
Definitions
  1. Gross; lubberly.
    Peace, ye fat-kidneyed rascal ! Shak.
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fat-soluble

  • adjective satellite soluble in fats
    • fat-soluble vitamin A
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fat-soluble vitamin

  • noun any vitamin that is soluble in fats
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fat-wited

Fat"-wit`ed adjective
Definitions
  1. Dull; stupid. Shak.
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fats domino

  • noun United States rhythm and blues pianist and singer and composer (born in 1928)
    Antoine Domino; Domino.
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fats waller

  • noun United States jazz musician (1904-1943)
    Thomas Wright Waller; Waller.
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ill-fated

  • adjective satellite marked by or promising bad fortune
    ill-starred; doomed; unlucky; ill-omened.
    • their business venture was doomed from the start
    • an ill-fated business venture
    • an ill-starred romance
    • the unlucky prisoner was again put in irons"- W.H.Prescott
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Leaf fat

  • noun fat lining the abdomen and kidneys in hogs which is used to make lard
    leaf lard.
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  • the fat which lies in leaves or layers within the body of an animal.
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low-fat diet

  • noun a diet containing limited amounts of fat and stressing foods high in carbohydrates; used in treatment of some gallbladder conditions
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low-fat milk

  • noun milk from which some of the cream has been removed
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mule fat

  • noun California shrub with slender leafy shoots that are important browse for mule deer
    Baccharis viminea.
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Natural fats

  • (Chem.), the group of oily substances of natural occurrence, as butter, lard, tallow, etc., as distinguished from certain fatlike substance of artificial production, as paraffin. Most natural fats are essentially mixtures of triglycerides of fatty acids.
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Natural fats, Natural gas, etc.

  • See under Fat, Gas. etc.
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otoba fat

O*to"ba fat`
Definitions
  1. (Chem.) A colorless buttery substance obtained from the fruit of Myristica otoba, a species of nutmeg tree.
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polyunsaturated fat

  • noun a class of fats having long carbon chains with many double bonds unsaturated with hydrogen atoms; used in some margarines; supposedly associated with low blood cholesterol
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puppy fat

  • noun fat on the body of a baby or child; disappears at adolescence
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Soap fat

  • the refuse fat of kitchens, slaughter houses, etc., used in making soap.
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Winter fat

  • . (Bot.) Same as White sage, under White.
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wool fat

  • noun a yellow viscous animal oil extracted from wool; a mixture of fatty acids and esters; used in some ointments and cosmetics
    wool grease; lanolin.
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