Deathfat
adj, noun, slang ·Uncommon ·College level
Definitions
- 1 A morbidly obese person. sarcastic, slang
"Some US fat activists distinguish between ‘inbetweenies,’ who are relatively ‘small’ fat people who enjoy privileges such as ‘passing’ as thin or ‘on their way to being’ thin, and ‘death fats,’ who suffer the worst of the sanctions society places on fat people (McMichael, 2010)."
- 1 Morbidly obese. not-comparable, sarcastic, slang
"it's made of people you probably see everyday^([sic]) and don't even think are fat, let alone deathfat."
Example
More examples"it's made of people you probably see everyday^([sic]) and don't even think are fat, let alone deathfat."
Etymology
From death + fat. Coined by Lesley Kinzel as a "counter-euphemism" for morbidly obese in a November 2008 post on the Fatshionista LiveJournal community.
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