FAT CHANCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fat chance mean? 

• FAT CHANCE (noun)
  The noun FAT CHANCE has 1 sense:

1. little or no chance of success

  Familiarity information: FAT CHANCE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAT CHANCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Little or no chance of success

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

fat chance; slim chance

Hypernyms ("fat chance" is a kind of...):

chance; probability (a measure of how likely it is that some event will occur; a number expressing the ratio of favorable cases to the whole number of cases possible)