fats

Noun

fat (usually uncountable, plural fats)

1. (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.
   1. (usually) Such tissue as food: the fatty portion of (or trimmings from) meat cuts.
      • Ask the butcher for a few pounds of fat for our greens.
2. (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.
3. (usually) That part of an organization deemed wasteful.
   • We need to trim the fat in this company
4. (slang, usually) An erection.
   • I saw Daniel crack a fat.
5. (usually) A poorly played shot where the ball is struck by the top part of the club head. (see also thin, shank, toe)

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