Fat Man

noun

1. the code name for the plutonium-core, implosion-type atom bomb the U.S. first tested and then dropped on Nagasaki in 1945.

Example Sentences

“You couldn’t beat a fat man,” he mocked Klitschko before a scheduled rematch which never happened.

From BBC

Among a wealth of actual and facsimile objects used in development and testing are an identical shell casing of the Fat Man bomb dropped on Nagasaki on Aug. 9, 1945, and a replica of the actual bomb that it would have encased.

From New York Times

Elsewhere is a display meant to honor the Japanese people killed and injured by Fat Man and Little Boy, a smaller bomb dropped on Hiroshima three days earlier.

From New York Times

But in one study, four candidates applied for various job openings: A fat woman, a thin woman, a fat man and a thin man.

From Salon

Jack has Santa Claus kidnapped to be kept out of Christmas Eve, but the Jolly Fat Man gets accidentally delivered to Jack’s evil rival Oogie Boogie who looks to harm him as well as Jack’s admirer Sally after her failed rescue attempt of the red-suited icon.

From Washington Times