
“Phat” is early 90s slang, it’s an alternative way of saying something is “nice” or “cool”. It’s a play on the word “fat” and it’s pronunciation.
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The usage of phat was more urban. When we introduced it to the burbs it was funny, people took it as an insult at first! I had to tell my friends “Yo man, phat means a good thing!”
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Early internet slang too, quite a few AOL chatroom dwellers flooded “phat”.
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This got played out super quick, like 96ish.
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