Re: OT: phat/vet/fat, was RE: creolego "cannibalizes" AND "phagocytat es" (wasRe: Gaelic Thingie)

Mike Karapcik and Steg Belsky both came up with--
>        Ebonics/urban slang is not my strong suit, but from what I know,
>phat is an acronym for "Pretty Hot And Tempting".
I'm somehow inclined to accept that.  Even as I wrote suggesting a
connection with "emphatic" I was thinking, that's a rather high-flown word
to be the source...:-)

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