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fat-cat

fat-cat is the alternative form of fat cat.

Meaning of fat cat

Noun

fat cat (plural fat cats)

  1. (slang, originally) A rich person who contributes to a political campaign.
    Synonyms:
    angel, big money man
  2. (derogatory, slang) Any affluent person who is perceived to have profited from the labor of others; and/or not to care about those of lesser means.
    • A staggering 57% of American workers believe there is a very real chance they will be unemployed in the next 5 to 7 years. But what does that matter to a bloated millionaire fat-cat like you?1997, John Brancato and Michael Ferris, The Game (motion picture), Daniel Schorr (actor)
  3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see fat, cat.

Forms of fat-cat

pluralfat-cats

Questions about fat-cat

What is fat-cat the alternative form of?
Fat-cat is the alternative form of fat cat.

Words near fat-cat in the dictionary

  1. fat-arses
  2. fat-ass
  3. fat-assed
  4. fat-asses
  5. fat-buttocked
  6. fat-cat
  7. fat-cats
  8. fat-chewing
  9. fat-finger
  10. fat-fingered
  11. fat-fingering

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fat-cat (page history and authors); fat cat (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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