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"Fit" - what does it mean

Hello
Where I live, if someone sees a particularly attractive young woman go by, people say that "she's fit".
I've heard the word a lot, but don't know what "fit" in this context really means. Is it the same thing as saying someone has a healthy athletic body?
Does anybody know what it means?
  

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[nq:1]Where I live, if someone sees a particularly attractive young woman go by, people say that "she's fit". I've heard ... means.

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  • I've heard ...
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  • Is it the same thing as saying someone has a healthy athletic body?
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[nq:1]Where I live, if someone sees a particularly attractive young woman go by, people say that "she's fit". I've heard ... means. Is it the same thing as saying someone has a healthy athletic body? Does anybody know what it means?[/nq]
I've never heard that usage, but if I heard it, I would have no problem understanding it, right or wrong, to mean "Well alRIGHT!"
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[nq:1]Hello Where I live, if someone sees a particularly attractive young woman go by, people say that "she's fit". I've ... what "fit" in this context really means. Is it the same thing as saying someone has a healthy athletic body?[/nq]
Yes. It probably stems from the "suitable" meaning of "fit", as in, "He is fit for duty (in the army)". It implies that a person is in suitable shape for ath
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[nq:1]Where I live, if someone sees a particularly attractive young woman go by, people say that "she's fit". I've heard ... means. Is it the same thing as saying someone has a healthy athletic body? Does anybody know what it means?[/nq]
Afaik, it's quite commonly used among the younger crowds in the UK. And it means what you said above: particularly attractive. I suppose others would call tha
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[nq:2]Where I live, if someone sees a particularly attractive young ... a healthy athletic body? Does anybody know what it means?[/nq]
[nq:1]Afaik, it's quite commonly used among the younger crowds in the UK. And it means what you said above: particularly attractive. I suppose others would call that "hot".
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[nq:1]Hello Where I live, if someone sees a particularly attractive young woman go by, people say that "she's fit". I've ... means. Is it the same thing as saying someone has a healthy athletic body? Does anybody know what it means?[/nq]
It works for both sexes as in 'she'd like to meet a fit lad'. It doesn't absolutely mean 'fit' as in athletically trained, but then somebody who's fit probabl
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[nq:2]Hello Where I live, if someone sees a particularly attractive ... a healthy athletic body? Does anybody know what it means?[/nq]
[nq:1]It works for both sexes as in 'she'd like to meet a fit lad'. It doesn't absolutely mean 'fit' as ... does have a nice body. Here's the usage in exactly to context we have in mind:- DC, once fitter[/nq]
Pipe fitter? Shop fitter? Gas fitter?
Anyw
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John Dean filted:
[nq:1]Anyway, 'fit' was around Oop North when I were a lad, most often applied to women, signifying "in excellent physical condition" but not with a view to trying out for the Olympics.[/nq]
There's a scale of this sort of thing...first comes "trim", then "fit", then "buff", and finally "ripped"..
My blind (1) date for the Weird Al Yankovic concert back in October was
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[nq:1]My blind (1) date for the Weird Al Yankovic concert back in October was buff at the time; with continued ... fourth category..r (1) Legally...I had to point out Alice Cooper for her when we ran into him in the lobby..[/nq]
How do you get a blind person to look
where you're pointing? Yell at them?
Or is some sort of physical intervention
required?

Michael West
Mel
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Michael West filted:
[nq:2](1) Legally...I had to point out Alice Cooper for her when we ran into him in the lobby..[/nq]
[nq:1]How do you get a blind person to look where you're pointing? Yell at them? Or is some sort of physical intervention required?[/nq]
"Legally blind" means something like "capable of seeing light and dark and some movement, but little else"...she uses a very powe
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[nq:1]Michael West filted:[/nq]
[nq:2]How do you get a blind person to look where you're pointing? Yell at them? Or is some sort of physical intervention required?[/nq]
[nq:1]"Legally blind" means something like "capable of seeing light and dark and some movement, but little else"[/nq]
Nah, it's way better than that.
In North American and most of Europe, legal blindness is defined

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