Phat

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The term Phat has a number of uses: Phat DOES NOT mean Pretty Hot and Tempting or any reference to a woman. It means something is nice, fly, cool, dope etc.

Slang

• Phat is an adjective in African American slang used to express approval. Hence, someone or something that is phat could be cool, rich, entertaining, intelligent, attractive or otherwise to be admired. When the word first surfaced in the 1960s, men generally used it to describe attractive, or "fine", women.
  • This meaning of phat has been assigned numerous backronym meanings, most commonly Pretty, Hot And Tempting, but also including others such as Perfect Hips, Ass and Tits and Pretty, Hot And Thick.
• A Phat or a DS Phat has become the slang term for the original Nintendo DS since the debut of Nintendo DS lite
• Phat Li, is a colloquial hindi slang, which loosely refers to being "stunned", "losing it", "scared". Literally, it translates to "upside-down". (Phat = inverted in hindi)

Things

• Phat is a moniker which a comic book character from Marvel Comics' X-Statix comics, Billy Bob, goes by.
• Phat is a mantric sound. It occurs in dharani in Vajrayana Buddhism.
• Too Phat is a Malaysian hip-hop group.
• Phat Farm is an urban fashion line created by Russell Simmons, the founder of Def Jam
• 2Phat was an RTE show on Network 2
• Phat Mom Blogging is a small blog at WordPress with information to empower women
• Phat is a card game for four players, where points are scored by taking tricks.

People

• Phat (ph@) is also a painter and musician from Germany.
• Phat is a common Vietnamese first name, which means "wealth".
• Gordon Allan "Phat" Wilson (December 29, 1895 – August, 1970) was a Canadian amateur ice hockey forward who played for the Port Arthur Bearcats.
• Huynh Tan Phat (1913 near My Tho – September 30, 1989 in Ho Chi Minh City) was a South Vietnamese politician and revolutionary

See also

• Fat