Slang Files · 📟 '90s & hip-hop
G33Z3R Slang Files · 1993–1999
Phat
🗳️ Did you say it?
Be one of the first to weigh in. No account needed.
Fat with a ph, meaning great, especially about a beat. The backronyms people made up for it came after; the word was just hip-hop respelling, the way the '90s liked to.
It crossed to the suburbs by 1995 and into ad copy by 1997, which is when the people who said it first stopped.
Sources: Wiktionary — Phat
The drive, the dance, the heartbreak, the summer. Add a memory of Phat.
'90s & hip-hop · 1994–1999
Means: Excellent; the bag of chips is a bonus on top
'90s & hip-hop · 1993–1999
Means: An exclamation of triumph
'90s & hip-hop · 1995–1999
Means: The best
'90s & hip-hop · 1988–1999
Means: I agree; that's true. Word up: hello, or listen
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