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baked potato

baked potato

20 1.0
A potato cooked in its skin in an oven until soft
  • noun
  • /beɪkt pəˈteɪtoʊ/
translation icon : patata asada (España)
  • For dinner, I had a delicious baked potato with butter and sour cream.
  • steak and baked potato
  • salad and baked potato
  • baked potato with sour cream

He would BBQ chicken, put a baked potato in the toaster oven and make broccoli.

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Examples

  • Would you like a baked potato, french fries or rice pilaf?

  • I want a steak, medium rare, and baked potato.

  • There were baked potatoes for everyone, with an extra for Snow.

    Fiction book (1999)
  • This is by far the best baked potato I ever eaten in my life.

  • How about a nice little steak with some baked potatoes?

  • Back at camp that night, we ate steak and baked potatoes with green beans.

    Blog text (6)
  • Bar-B-Q chicken sandwich, baked potato plain, with a medium Coke.

  • It comes with a dinner salad, roll, shrimp cocktail and a baked potato.

  • Cobb salad, followed by rare roast in wine sauce, served with baked potatoes stuffed with sour cream and chives.

    Fiction book (1991)
  • There were grilled flank steaks marinated in soy sauce, garlic, and herbs, served with baked potatoes, salad, and a perfect red wine.

    Fiction book (1998)

Synonyms

jacket potato
vsbaked potato
  • UK
1 2.4

A baked potato with its skin left on

is the general term for the oven-cooked dish in its skin, not region-specific
baked spud
vsbaked potato
  • Informal
3.0

A whole baked potato served with toppings like cheese or beans

is the neutral standard term rather than a casual or playful name

Surface Forms

baked potato singular

Morphology

baked + potato

The meaning 'a potato cooked by baking' is directly and compositionally derived from 'baked' (cooked by dry oven heat) + 'potato' (starchy tuber). This adjective+noun combination follows a standard, cross-linguistic pattern, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily understand the MWE.

Etymology

Baked potato comes from a simple idea: a whole potato is put in an oven and baked in its skin until the inside is soft. Imagine a potato with a crisp skin and warm, fluffy inside — that's why the name means 'a potato cooked by baking'.