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Fat Cat

Informal; a wealthy person. The term is derogatory and connotes a person who flaunts his/her wealth ostentatiously and/or does not work to earn it.

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Bangor had never seen anything quite like the Fat Cat before - the bar served food throughout the day, was furnished with distressed wood panelling cannibalised from closed churches or schools, and crucially its laid-back approach proved a massive hit with women.

The Fat Cat's smile at the bar just grows wider and wider 7

And the fat cats in the skyboxes were too busy eating lobster tails, sipping wine and martinis, exchanging business cards, talking on their cell phones, or dozing.

A Citizen's Guide to the Conventions

Gramm was so infuriated that he ordered police officers to remove the fat cats from his rally, only to be told that New Hampshire law did not proscribe feline protests.

New Hampshire snow job: white is the primary color

For every banker getting a bonus, Fifty people end up homeless, Today's the day the fat cats are having a party.

Fat cats party on our misery

FAT Cats Caf Bar, above, on St Mary's Place, Newcastle, is new to the business property market.

Cafe for sale is the cat's whiskers

FAT CATS in the City of London have pocketed pounds 14BILLION in bonuses this year.

ROLLING IN IT; Fat cats' pounds 14bn bonus

She will table a motion blasting the way Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt and the Government have lined the pockets of the fat cats.

IT'S STRIFE ON MARS; EXCLUSIVE

The 'diet plan for fat cats' promises to cut payments to the most senior councillors - known as special responsibility allowances - by 10 per cent and then to freeze all councillors' allowances for four years.

Lib Dems in 'fat-cat' demo

Has anybody done any research to see if Rover would poll more votes if he appeared immediately below Butch instead of after three candidates from the Fat Cats party?

Letter: Readers letter

It seems the over-fed fat cats are determined to change our children into brainless billboards.

letter: Fat cats prey on children

A pair of ``HSBC Fat Cats'' - Friends of the Earth campaigners in costume - protested outside the Barbican Centre in London's financial district carrying briefcases overflowing with money in protest at extravagant boardroom pay.

HSBC in row over pay

Members of the unions will hold banners reading "Don't let the fat cats cream any more off".