fatty boombalatty

9.9

A lively, extravagant event like a party with loud music and bright lights

noun

Slang

: fiesta extravagante

The wedding reception was a fatty boombalatty with a live band and fireworks.

Examples

I love a good fatty boombalatty concert.
Her birthday party last night was a total fatty boombalatty.
Everyone agreed the festival turned into a fatty boombalatty celebration.
That party was such a fatty boombalatty!
Everyone agreed the festival turned into a fatty boombalatty celebration.
The wedding reception was a fatty boombalatty with a live band and fireworks.
Her birthday party last night was a total fatty boombalatty.

How Extravagant

extravaganza

37 7.5

fatty boombalatty

Slang

9.9

showy performance

5.4

Surface Forms

fatty boombalatty singular

fatty boombalatties plural

Morphology

fatty + boombalatty

This item is slang containing at least one nonce/invented component ('boombalatty') and an informal form ('fatty') that does not semantically contribute to 'extravagant, lively' in a predictable way. Because the constituents are nonstandard or unanalyzable and the phrase appears idiomatic/local slang, a B1 learner who knows the parts would not be able to derive the overall meaning.

Etymology

Fatty boombalatty likely comes from a sound-image: fatty meaning big, and the boom in boombalatty like a loud drum or bass. One popular idea is that people used it for parties with big music, lights and loud bangs, so it came to mean 'extravagant, lively, or over the top'.