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fat


really good heaps good: that bike is fat as. Also, phat.

Editor's comments: Used all over Australia?

Contributor's comments: The term "fat" is also used in South East Queensland but is spelt "phat".

Contributor's comments: This is not an Australian regionalism - unless we allow NZ in as a state of the lucky country. The word (spelt phat) is common in that country (I heard it used ad nauseum while I was living in Christchurch), indeed almost now passe there.

Editor's comments: This is an Americanism recently adopted by youth in both Oz and NZ.

Contributor's comments: SEA FM has a program called the Phat 30 and this is heard over much of the Eastern States outside the capital cities.