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fat and happy

fat and happy adjective: content; having one's wants and needs met; often with a connotation of complacent advantage or privilege (as for example with a sinecure or with power of socioeconomic establishment).

Adjective

fat and happy (comparative more fat and happy, superlative most fat and happy)

  1. (informal) Content; having one's wants and needs met; often with a connotation of complacent advantage or privilege (as for example with a sinecure or with power of socioeconomic establishment).
    • The US. in 1954 made up only 6% of the world's population of 2.7 billion, but it owned 60% of its automobiles, 58% of its telephones and similarly vast amounts of breeziness and arrogance. For the first time, we were getting fat and happy.2001, Frank Deford, The Best of Frank Deford, →ISBN
    • Since black people are richer than most poor in third world countries we are fat and happy.2007, Joseph Gwin, Beyond Malcolm, →ISBN, page 59
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see fat, happy.
    Synonyms:
    happy

Examples of fat and happy in a sentence

  • Like, twenty years ago everyone was fat and happy.2007, David S. Michaels, Daniel Brenton, Red Moon, →ISBN, page 55:
  • Alternatively, perhaps consumerism is taking its toll, with people just too fat and happy to care.2013, Joan Johnson-Freese, Space as a Strategic Asset, →ISBN, page 4:

Synonyms of fat and happy

Forms of fat and happy

comparativemore fat and happy
superlativemost fat and happy

Questions about fat and happy

What does fat and happy mean?
Fat and happy means content; having one's wants and needs met; often with a connotation of complacent advantage or privilege (as for example with a sinecure or with power of socioeconomic establishment).
How do you use fat and happy in a sentence?
Like, twenty years ago everyone was fat and happy.
What part of speech is fat and happy?
Fat and happy is an adjective.

Words near fat and happy in the dictionary

  1. Fasulos
  2. fat
  3. fat acceptance
  4. fat activist
  5. fat activists
  6. fat and happy
  7. fat arrow
  8. fat arrows
  9. fat as a barrel
  10. fat as a fool
  11. fat as a house

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