fatsuit

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noun

A bodysuit-like undergarment designed to make the wearer look fatter.

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Meanings

nounfatsuit (plural fatsuits)

plural fatsuits · alternative fat suit

  1. A bodysuit-like undergarment designed to make the wearer look fatter.

    Nathan Young, a software engineer, told me, “I remember hearing about Eliezer [Yudkowsky], who was known to be a heavy guy, onstage at some rationalist event, asking the crowd to predict if he could lose a bunch of weight. Then the big reveal: he unzips the fat suit he was wearing.

    2024 March 18, Andrew Marantz, quoting Nathan Young, “О.К., Doomer”, in The New Yorker, page 44

Origin

From fat + suit.

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APA

fatsuit. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fatsuit

MLA

“fatsuit.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fatsuit. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “fatsuit,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fatsuit.

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