{
    "term": "fat",
    "partOfSpeech": "adjective",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "having too much flesh on it and weighing too much",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a fat dog"
                },
                {
                    "text": "You'll **get fat** if you eat so much chocolate."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He grew fatter and fatter."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Do these jeans make me look fat?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The baby held out its fat little hand to me."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Try to cut out the foods that are making you fat."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Appearance"],
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["be", "feel", "look"],
                "adverb": ["enormously", "hugely", "immensely"],
                "phrases": ["big fat"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "containing a lot of fat",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "fat bacon/sausages"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "thick or wide",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a fat volume on American history"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a **big fat** envelope stuffed with banknotes"
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["be", "feel", "look"],
                "adverb": ["enormously", "hugely", "immensely"],
                "phrases": ["big fat"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "large in quantity; worth a lot of money",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a **fat sum/profit**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He gave me a nice fat cheque."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "used for saying that you do not believe something is likely to happen",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "‘They might let us in without tickets.’ ‘Fat chance of that!’"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Fat chance of him helping you!"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "not at all good or useful",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Paul can't drive so he was a fat lot of use when I broke my arm."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "used for saying that a situation may still change, for example that a contest, election, etc. is not finished yet, and somebody still has a chance to win it",
            "labels": "(saying)",
            "examples": []
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/fæt/",
                "audio": "fa/fat/fat__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/fæt/",
                "audio": "fa/fat/fat__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Old English fǣtt ‘well fed, plump’, also ‘fatty, oily’, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch vet and German feist."
}