fat farm

American  

noun

Slang.

1. a sanitarium or a resort that specializes in helping people lose weight.

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fat farm British  

noun

1. slang a health farm or similar establishment to which people go to lose weight

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fat farm Idioms  

1. A clinic or resort where people go to lose weight, as in She spends all her vacations at a fat farm but it hasn't helped so far. This is a somewhat derisive term for such an establishment. [Colloquial; 1960s]

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Etymology

Origin of fat farm

First recorded in 1965–70

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

fat farm

He weighed an astonishing 15 kilograms—three times more than the average macaque—before he went to the monkey equivalent of a fat farm.

From Science Magazine ● Sep. 6, 2023

Back in 1983, I spent a week with Phil while he was an outpatient at La Costa’s fat farm on a 600-calorie-a-day diet, sort of.

From Golf Digest ● Jun. 27, 2018

He has tried repeatedly, with varying success, to lose weight by methods ranging from diets to occasional visits to a Swiss fat farm.

From Time Magazine Archive

Her accounts of the week of abstinence often sound like the minimelodramas at a fat farm.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Not much he will, when it's old Streeter that's got the mortgage on a good fat farm like this!"

From Just David by Porter, Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman)