fat farm
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- noun
- /fæt fɑrm/
- Offensive
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[ofensivo] campamento para gordos
- We met at a fat-farm spa-resort thing.
- go to a fat farm
and I am running around at the track at the fat farm. It starts to rain.
- and I am running around at the track at the fat farm. It starts to rain.
Examples
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There's a fat farm weight loss clinic at that location.
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I performed at a fat farm once.
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and I am running around at the track at the fat farm. It starts to rain.
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and I am running around at the track at the fat farm. It starts to rain.
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I'm gonna make my sister go to a fat farm, because, you know, she's way too big.
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Is that it's a really good fat farm, later renamed to Fat Camps Fat Kids, my exclusive programme of diet and ridicule will really get results.
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Many people visit a fat farm to follow structured weight loss programs and improve their health.
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After struggling with her weight, she decided to spend the summer at a fat farm for some much-needed guidance.
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The fat farm offers a variety of activities, including yoga classes and healthy cooking workshops.
Antonyms
How Intensive
Surface Forms
Morphology
fat + farm
The compound 'fat farm' is directly interpretable by combining 'fat' (excess body weight) with 'farm' (a place devoted to a particular activity), so a B1 learner would reasonably infer it denotes a place associated with fat reduction or weight-loss programs. Although informal/slang, the sense is compositional and the basic idea (a facility where people go to lose weight) is derivable from the constituents.
Etymology
Fat farm may come from a simple joke: the words fat and farm make a picture of a farm where animals are fed to get fat, so calling a weight-loss place a fat farm makes a strong image. That's why it means 'a place to lose weight'.