🧑‍🦱 Overweight 🧈 A greasy substance 🍔 Oily or rich 💰 Large amount 📏 Thick or wide ⚖️ Excess weight 🍽️ To make plump 🌱 Very fertile

fat

58 6.2

Large and offering a lot of money

adjective
/fæt/

Informal

: jugoso

Yet they were looking for investors who wanted a fat return and wouldn't ask too many questions.
big fat commission

So here's this guy that's got a big fat wad of cash in his pocket.

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Examples

So here's this guy that's got a big fat wad of cash in his pocket.

Julian Dorey
I can write you a big fat check.

That's My Boy (2012)
Not when they want me back in a nice fat job at a nice fat bank.

The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
Let's make some big fat cash.

The inbreaker (1974)
What you're really doing is putting your money into some fat Wall Street company as an investment for them.

Fiction book (2001)
This is not just any pay cut, this is a big fat Marks and Spencer's pay cut.
Duke offered me an assistant professorship, with a fat salary and a lab of my own.

Fiction book (2000)
Hey, do we cash a fat check for Everett Skyler?

This Could Be the Night (1957)
Costello approaches Charlie on the dais, handing him a fat envelope for the Don.

Fiction book (1991)
I can offer you a big, fat contract for this project.

Synonyms

juicy

vsfat

10 5.3

An offer or deal that gives a lot of money

is generous and profitable but shows milder intensity than the other term

Antonyms

unprofitable

10 4.9

Not making money for a person or business

Idioms

fat chance

Informal

12 8.1

A way to say something is very unlikely to happen

to chew the fat

Informal

3 7.9

Talk in a friendly, relaxed way for a long time

the fat of the land

2 6.8

The best food and goods a place gives

Compounds

fat cat

Offensive

30 6.3

A rich, powerful person who seems greedy and has too much power

fat-free

28 1.0

A food or drink that contains no fat

fat face

9 5.1

A round, chubby face with full cheeks

low-fat diet

9 2.5

An eating plan that has little fat and more foods like bread or meat

fat content

9 2.6

The amount of fat in a food or drink

fat cell

Specialized

8 2.8

A small part of the body that stores fat for energy

animal fat

7 2.6

The oily part of animals' bodies used for cooking and making products

low-fat milk

5 1.0

Milk that has less fat than whole milk

fat lip

4 4.1

A swollen lip that happens after a hit or injury

Fat Tuesday

4 4.3

A day of feasting and parties before Lent, also called Mardi Gras

fat farm

Offensive

3 8.4

An informal name for a place where people stay to lose weight by diet and exercise

fat body

2 2.8

A person or animal with extra weight and a round shape

polyunsaturated fat

Specialized

2 3.5

A fat from plant oils and fish that is better for the heart

fat-soluble

Specialized

2 4.2

Able to dissolve in fat or oil rather than water

fat finger

Jargon

1 7.9

A mistake you make by pressing the wrong key or button

deep fat fryer

1 3.4

An electric kitchen machine that cooks food by putting it completely in hot oil

fat-soluble vitamin

Specialized

1 2.9

A vitamin that mixes with fat and stays in body fat

fat embolism

Specialized

1 7.5

When fat enters the blood and blocks a blood vessel after a broken bone

big fat bonus

Informal

1 3.3

A large extra payment from your job for good work

bone fat

Specialized

1 8.4

Fat taken from animal bones used to make cheap candles, soap, and grease

fat metabolism

Specialized

1 3.7

The way the body breaks down fat to make energy

big fat prize

Informal

1 3.1

A very large and impressive award given to the winner

fat day

Informal

1 8.8

A day when you eat a lot and feel too full

puppy fat

1 3.4

A soft layer of fat on a child that children lose as they grow

leaf fat

1 9.1

A layer of fat around a pig's kidneys used to make lard

edible fat

1 2.4

Oils and other foods from animals or plants that people eat and use for cooking

mule fat

Specialized

1 9.9

A Californian shrub with thin leafy shoots that deer eat

cohune fat

Specialized

9.9

A thick fat from the nuts of a palm used for cooking and making soap

fat hen

8.1

A common wild plant with leaves you can eat and cook like spinach

fat logic

Slang

9.9

A way of thinking that makes unfair actions seem acceptable to help oneself

lazy fat-ass

Offensive

9.9

A rude name for someone seen as lazy and very overweight

wool fat

Specialized

6.9

A yellow, greasy material from sheep's wool used in creams and skin products

How Lucrative

fat

Informal

58 6.2

lucrative

108 5.6

decent

526 2.3

modest

198 3.3

small

∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

fat positive

fatter comparative

fattest superlative

Etymology

Fat for money or a job uses the idea of 'plenty' or 'large', so a 'fat' bonus or contract is one that gives a lot of money.