fat farm

noun, Informal.
1.
a sanitarium or a resort that specializes in helping people lose weight.
Origin
1965-70
Examples from the web for fat farm
  • Bush signed a fat farm bill full of puzzling subsidies to agribusiness.
British Dictionary definitions for fat farm

fat farm

noun
1.
(slang) a health farm or similar establishment to which people go to lose weight
Slang definitions & phrases for fat farm

fat farm

noun phrase

A resort or treatment center where people go to lose weight: It'll be adventures of me, and takes place at a fat farm/ I went to a California fat farm a couple years ago (1960s+)


Idioms and Phrases with fat farm

fat farm

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. [ ; 1960s ]