Deathfat

adj, noun, slang

adj, noun, slang ·Uncommon ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 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)."

Adjective
  1. 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.

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.