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What is a fatberg?

What is a fatberg? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A large accumulation of fat and discarded toiletries which clogs sewers. [From late 2000s]
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Months ago a tunnel was clogged with a fatberg. It took a team of workers a month to move it.
Thames Water since the Clerkenwell fatberg is just the latest of 200,000 greasy build-ups they have encountered over the past five years.
Last year, the utility company found a fatberg the length of a Boeing 747 beneath Shepherd's Bush in west London.
Crouching down, it's possible to enter the trunk sewer to find the fatberg, but after a few minutes of searching it doesn't seem to be there.
The fatberg had been clogging London's sewers and was dangerously close to flooding the streets with raw waste.
The fatberg was found in a Kingston sewer, by Thames Water, after residents complained that they couldn't flush their toilets.

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