fat cat
(slang, originally) A rich person who contributes to a political campaign.
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Born ~1920 · 1 year of recorded useSeen in the wild
you don't even need videos just take a picture of a fat cat laying on a pizza box and boom, instant laughs
The world is moving to renewable energy. The fat cat oligarcs hate it because it frees people from having to pay something every month just to exist. Now we need a free communication system they can't control or inter…
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To this day Fat Cat is one of the best things they've added to the game, you can't not love it 😌
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(slang, originally) A rich person who contributes to a political campaign.
A staggering 57% of American workers believe there is a very real chance they will be unemployed in the next 5 to 7 years. But what does that matter to a bloated millionaire fat-cat like you?
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(slang, derogatory) Any affluent person who is perceived to have profited from the labor of others; and/or not to care about those of lesser means.
“The world is moving to renewable energy. The fat cat oligarcs hate it because it frees people from having to pay something every month just to exist. Now we need a free communication system they can't control or interfere with. Something like Hamm radios?”
In America, where we moralize our money and monetize our morals, fat cats who go bust tend to be viewed as cautionary figures, singular exemplars of malfeasance, not routine casualties of the fickle system that exalted them in the first …
“you don't even need videos just take a picture of a fat cat laying on a pizza box and boom, instant laughs”
— Bluesky· May 2026“The world is moving to renewable energy. The fat cat oligarcs hate it because it frees people from having to pay something every month just to exist. Now we need a free communication system they can't control or interfere with. Something like Hamm radios?”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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