Fat Man

American  

noun

1. the code name for the plutonium-core, implosion-type atom bomb the U.S. first tested and then dropped on Nagasaki in 1945.

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Example Sentences

Fat man: "Why here, at the 'First of April.'"

From St. Peter's Umbrella by Mikszáth, Kálmán

Why, there's a lady staying here that's friendly with his daughters, and she went out to see them the other day, and the old man said they'd stop here and sjam— Fat man.

From From Capetown to Ladysmith An Unfinished Record of the South African War by Steevens, G. W. (George Warrington)

"The misfortenit bivalves meet the Fat man, and they're his'n."

From Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 24, September 10, 1870 by Various

Here, indeed, was a "living oxymoron"—a combination of inconsistent and incongruous qualities which to the typical John Bull—Lord Palmerston's "Fat man with a white hat in the twopenny omnibus"—was a sealed and hopeless mystery.

From Collections and Recollections by Russell, George William Erskine

Fat man with a woollen muffler and a quill toothpick.

From The Four Million by Henry, O.