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fatsuit en · NOUN

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Etymology

From fat + suit.

Meanings

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:

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