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big-fat

big-fat is the alternative form of big fat.

Meaning of big fat

Adjective

big fat (not comparable)

  1. (derogatory, idiomatic) Complete, utter, total.
    • He's a big fat idiot.
  2. (colloquial, idiomatic) Huge, colossal.
    • I know a society who will pay you a big fat sum if you'll sign over them eyes for post-mortem laboratory work.1918, Fannie Hurst, "A Petal on the Current" (collected in Humoresque, 1919), in Cosmopolitan, vol. 65, p. 42
  3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see big, fat.
    • The suspect was a big fat man with a shabby appearance.

Questions about big-fat

What is big-fat the alternative form of?
Big-fat is the alternative form of big fat.

Words near big-fat in the dictionary

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  3. big-eyed
  4. big-eyed tree frog
  5. big-eyed tree frogs
  6. big-fat
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  9. big-footed mice
  10. big-footed mouse
  11. big-girl pants

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