fat

1. fat (noun) — sense 1

Definition: A specialized animal tissue with high lipid content, used for long-term storage of energy: fat tissue.

Example: Mammals that hibernate have plenty of fat to keep them warm during the winter.

2. fat (noun) — sense 2

Definition: A specialized animal tissue with high lipid content, used for long-term storage of energy: fat tissue.: Such tissue as food: the fatty portion of (or trimmings from) meat cuts.

Example: Ask the butcher for a few pounds of fat for our greens.

3. fat (noun) — sense 3

Definition: A lipid that is solid at room temperature, which fat tissue contains and which is also found in the blood circulation; sometimes, a refined substance chemically resembling such naturally occurring lipids.

Example: Dietary fat is not the evil that it was once misapprehended to be; carbs are increasingly recognized as a bigger driver of atherosclerosis via chronic insulin resistance and the vascular processes that cascade from it.

4. fat (verb) — sense 4

Definition: To make fat; to fatten.

Example: kill the fatted calf

5. fat (verb) — sense 5

Definition: To become fat; to fatten.

6. fat (verb) — sense 6

Definition: To hit (a golf ball) with a fat shot.

Example: “On this one hole, Donald hits his second and fats it into the water,” Faxon remembers. “But he quickly says to me, ‘Hey, throw me another ball; they weren’t looking.’ So I do. But he fats that one into the water, too. So he drives up and drops where he should’ve dropped the first time and hits it on the green.”