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tater

tater

34 8.4
A potato that people cook and eat
  • noun
  • /ˈteɪtər/
  • Informal
translation icon : papa
  • Very easy to keep through the winter, or you can lift the taters and store them in a dry, dark place.
  • tater tots
  • fried taters
  • eat taters

And since it's Minnesota, both of those meals are tater tots.

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Examples

  • And is life even worth living in a world without tater tots?

    Blog text (7)
  • The man weeps when the cafeteria runs out of Tater Tots.

    Fiction book (1995)
  • And I just want to make sure that we're giving our taters the best shot at life.

  • Let her eat her tater tots, please.

  • Teen girls love tater tots.

  • She decided she was gonna go get some, uh, tater tots.

  • Won't grow taters unless you make sure of that.

    Fiction book (1998)
  • Steaks, baked taters, cold beer, the works.

    Fiction book (1993)
  • After work, I'd be out there every night watering my carrots, taters, tomatoes.

  • I love to bake a crispy potato topped with cheese, also known as a tater.

Synonyms

potato
vstater
501 1.0

A starchy vegetable that people eat, often boiled or mashed

is the informal, colloquial version rather than the neutral full name
tuber
vstater
  • Specialized
9 6.0

A thick underground stem that stores food and grows new shoots, like a potato

is the casual food name rather than the technical botanical term
spud
vstater
  • Informal
7 3.0

A potato often eaten cooked or fried

is an informal general name rather than a term stressing crop use
tattie
vstater
  • UK
1 9.9

A potato, especially in Scotland

is the informal, more widely used casual term rather than the regional form
murphy
vstater
  • UK
9.9

A name for a potato used in some parts of Ireland and Britain

is the general informal word used across regions rather than this dialect form

Surface Forms

tater singular
taters plural

Etymology

Tater is a friendly, informal short form of potato, like saying 'bike' for 'bicycle'. So, when someone says tater they simply mean a 'potato'.