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tomato ketchup

tomato ketchup

1 1.0
A thick red sauce made from tomatoes and used on foods like fries
  • noun
  • /təˈmeɪtoʊ ˈkɛtʃəp/
translation icon : ketchup de tomate
  • Many people enjoy dipping their onion rings in tomato ketchup.

Examples

  • I'm a customer asking me for tomato ketchup, man.

  • The market dictates ingredients, say Heinz tomato ketchup and then coloring.

  • First up, we've got tomato ketchup there, isn't it?

  • Plenty of tomato ketchup.

    The Leather Boys (1964)

  • If you don't like the flavor there's tomato ketchup for you.

    Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)

  • Real tomato ketchup, Eddie?

    National Lampoon's Vacation (1983)

  • You guys had chicken today and they can be served with chili sauce or tomato ketchup, and they're from Say It With Me, Indonesia.

  • My guys sat in sat in the non bubble bath in his shorts with the tomato tomato ketchup round here screaming at Top Gear.

  • I like to add tomato ketchup to my fries for extra flavor.

  • She made a burger and topped it with tomato ketchup and mustard.

Synonyms

ketchup
vstomato ketchup
123 1.0

A thick, sweet tomato sauce used on food like fries or burgers

is the same condiment but description omits explicit sweetness
catsup
vstomato ketchup
  • Archaic
2 1.8

A thick tomato sauce that people put on hamburgers and fries

is identical in meaning but written in the more common modern form
chili sauce
vstomato ketchup
  • US
1 1.0

A spicy sauce made from peppers, tomatoes, and vinegar to add heat to food

is thicker and simpler focusing on a single primary fruit rather than mixed ingredients

How Concentrated

tomato paste
6 1.5
tomato ketchup
1 1.0
tomato sauce
20 1.0
tomato juice
11 1.0

Surface Forms

tomato ketchup singular
tomato ketchups plural

Morphology

tomato + ketchup

The meaning of 'tomato ketchup' is directly and compositionally derived from 'tomato' + 'ketchup' — a ketchup made from tomatoes. This noun+noun compounding is a common, literal pattern across languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the MWE's meaning.

Etymology

The name tomato ketchup comes from when cooks put tomato into a sauce called ketchup, a word from an old Asian sauce. So today tomato ketchup means 'a thick, spicy sauce made from tomatoes' that people put on food.