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fatsuit

fatsuit noun: a bodysuit-like undergarment designed to make the wearer look fatter.

Noun

fatsuit (plural fatsuits)

  1. A bodysuit-like undergarment designed to make the wearer look fatter.
    • Nathan Young, a software engineer, told me, “I remember hearing about Eliezer [Yudkowsky], who was known to be a heavy guy, onstage at some rationalist event, asking the crowd to predict if he could lose a bunch of weight. Then the big reveal: he unzips the fat suit he was wearing.2024 March 18, Andrew Marantz, quoting Nathan Young, “О.К., Doomer”, in The New Yorker, page 44

Forms of fatsuit

pluralfatsuits
alternative formfat suit

Origin of fatsuit

From fat + suit.

Questions about fatsuit

What does fatsuit mean?
Fatsuit means a bodysuit-like undergarment designed to make the wearer look fatter.
What part of speech is fatsuit?
Fatsuit is a noun.
What is the plural of fatsuit?
The plural of fatsuit is fatsuits.

Words near fatsuit in the dictionary

  1. fatsos
  2. fatsploitation
  3. fatspo
  4. fatstock
  5. fatstocks
  6. fatsuit
  7. fatsuits
  8. FATT
  9. fattard
  10. fattards
  11. fatted

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