Sekirov Dictionary

ketchup

/ˈkɛt͡ʃ.əp/

noun 2
verb 1
forms 3
phrases 1

noun2

•
Ellipsis of tomato ketchup (“a tomato-vinegar-based sauce, sometimes containing spices, onion or garlic, and (especially in the US) sweeteners”).
- This diner serves ketchup in red bottles, and mustard in yellow ones.
•
(no longer used) Such a sauce more generally (not necessarily based on tomatoes, but with mushrooms, fish, etc.). This is the older meaning.
- The bottles, however, were port bottles, but contained mushroom ketchup; […] — 1883

verb1

•
To cover with ketchup.
- It strikes me she's "ketchupped" the lot! I won't touch a morsel! — 1867

forms

ketchupped · ketchupping · ketchups

Phrases with ketchup

marry the ketchup
To combine ketchup from half-empty bottles in a restaurant, in order to reduce the number of bottles.

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