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leftovers

leftovers

82 1.0
Food remaining after a meal that you save to eat later
  • noun
  • /ˈlɛftˌoʊvərz/
: sobras
  • 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
17 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
5 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 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
82 1.0
leftover
17 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.