Fat Man

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.

Example Sentences

Most people wouldn't look twice at a “fat man” walking hand-in-hand with an attractive, skinny woman.

From The Daily Beast

If you push the fat man onto the tracks, however, he will stop the train, saving the five, but dying as a result.

From The Daily Beast

Ditka: “Fridge is a big man with some fat on; not just a big fat man.”

From The Daily Beast

It was a prized image in Chicago: the joy of the fat man in the open field.

From The Daily Beast

"You can't make a fat man skinny by tightening his belt," observed John Maynard Keynes.

From The Daily Beast

The fat man watched the flush on Dick's face as he spoke, and was apparently gratified.

From Project Gutenberg

He was a fat man—eating roast pork, and apple-sauce, and mashed potatoes, and bread.

From Project Gutenberg

There is a huge fat man seated on a low stool cleaning the boots of another man equally stout.

From Project Gutenberg

One of them, a fat man who had blonde hair and sang bass, eventually took Peter's order.

From Project Gutenberg

"There must have been a fat man who was unsteady on his feet," observed the Captain.

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