fat-city

Fat City

noun Slang.
an easy and prosperous condition or circumstance: With a new house and a better-paying job, she's in Fat City.
Also, fat city.


Origin:
1960–65

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fat city definition


  1. n.
    a state of wealth and comfort; easy street. : She's living in fat city ever since she inherited her fortune.
  2. n.
    fatness (expressed as a place). : I've had it with fat city. I'm going on a diet.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
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