FAT CITY Definition & Meaning

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Fat City

or fat city

noun

Slang.

an easy and prosperous condition or circumstance:
With a new house and a better-paying job, she's in Fat City.

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of Fat City¹

First recorded in 1960–65

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Idioms and Phrases

Also, Fat City . A condition or circumstance marked by considerable prosperity or having a superior advantage. For example, With that new job she'll be in fat city . [ Slang ; 1960s] Also see easy street .

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A review on the website “Los Angeles Literature” compared it to Leonard Gardner’s 1970 novel “Fat City,” unsurprisingly, a favorite read of Mathews.

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Fred and I developed a relationship; he wanted me to try out for a part in a movie called “Fat City.”

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Clark: After “Fat City,” I was batting zeros for a year.

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We’re in the early ’70s, so Gordita inevitably suggests a kind of Fat City too, ripe for the plundering of rapacious real estate combines.

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And wouldn’t animals be in fat city with all the roaches named Mitch McConnell bought by Democrats?

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