fat lady

English

Noun

fat lady (plural fat ladies)

  1. (dated, now offensive) A woman of unusually large body size formerly exhibited as a circus sideshow attraction.
    • 1957, Sydney J. Bounds, The Robot Brains, London: Digit Books, page 26:
      Opposite him was the Fat Lady, red-faced and laughing. Beside her, the India-rubber Man wound spaghetti on to a fork with an expression of deepest melancholy. Further down the table, the Strong Man, an overcoat covering his leopard-skin, talked garrulously.
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