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leftovers

leftovers

1.0
Food remaining after a meal that you save to eat later
  • noun
  • /ˈlɛftˌoʊvərz/
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  • So I'm, I like if I cook, I want leftovers for lunch the next day.

If you're just heating up leftovers, you're good.

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Examples

  • Yeah, sausages, leftover steak from the night before.

  • After the party, we had a lot of leftovers that we packed into containers.

  • So he, he took my leftovers basically.

  • This is like the leftovers of all of our food.

  • And this is some of their leftovers, right?

  • I'm taking leftovers home, baby, baby.

    First We Feast

  • We got Chinese takeout boxes, leftovers for days.

  • And you want us to try leftover Thanksgiving nachos?

  • I had some leftover broccoli and carrots.

  • We've got BBQ sauce, leftover Chinese cinnamon rolls.

Synonyms

leftover
vsleftovers
187 1.7

A small amount of food remaining after a meal

refers generally to food remaining after a meal that is often saved for later
table scrap
vsleftovers
3 2.7

A small amount of leftover food from a meal that is given to animals or thrown away

is usually saved for human eating later rather than discarded or fed to animals
leavings
vsleftovers
5.1

Small pieces of food and other things left after people eat or use them

is limited to remaining food after a meal and often kept to eat later

How Much

leftovers
1.0
leftover
187 1.7

Surface Forms

leftovers plural

Morphology

leftovers = leftover (transparent) = over + left + s

The noun 'leftover' is a straightforward unit meaning 'remaining item', and adding plural -s is a regular, transparent change.

Etymology

The word leftovers comes from the simple parts left ('remaining') and over ('extra'). So leftovers are the extra food 'left' after a meal and often saved to eat later.