A fat cat, affectionately — 'a heckin' chonker' — from a 2018 chart that graded cats from 'a fine boi' to 'OH LAWD HE COMIN''. The record's entry for the scale that made obesity adorable, in cats only, and the vet's least favourite meme.
Small fix: the peak year is right but the peak was shorter than a year — closer to six weeks. The rest of 2019 was people explaining it.
Filed under noun. The headnote is fine; the footnote is that Chonk only ever meant one thing to the people using it and something else entirely to the people explaining it.
The chonk chart printed and pinned in a veterinary waiting room in Bristol, with 'OH LAWD HE COMIN'' crossed out and 'please see reception' written underneath. The record notes the vet had a point.
You were there. What happened?
