marry the ketchup
To combine ketchup from half-empty bottles in a restaurant, in order to reduce the number of bottles.
ketchup
/ˈkɛt͡ʃ.əp/
noun 2verb 1
Collocations
4ADJ.
equivalent, hot, other, popular, red
VERB + KETCHUP
contained, forgot, fries, like, mix, pass, put, puts
KETCHUP + NOUN
hamburger, people
PREP.
about, in, on, with
Definitions
noun
1
Ellipsis of tomato ketchup (“a tomato-vinegar-based sauce, sometimes containing spices, onion or garlic, and (especially in the US) sweeteners”).
tomato ketchup
This diner serves ketchup in red bottles, and mustard in yellow ones.
2
Such a sauce more generally (not necessarily based on tomatoes, but with mushrooms, fish, etc.). This is the older meaning.
The bottles, however, were port bottles, but contained mushroom ketchup; […]
To accompany meat, we prepare fruit ketchups and rhubarb chutney.
verb
1
To cover with ketchup.
It strikes me she's "ketchupped" the lot! I won't touch a morsel!
"Well," said Chuck, ketchupping his hamburger, "I'd rather do without King Lear than put up with the human agony it sprang out of. I'd rather not have the Eroica than have the big bloody conqueror it tries to immortalize."
Thesaurus
Synonyms
noun — thick spicy sauce made from tomatoes
- catsup
- cetchup
Antonyms
Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
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tomato ketchup
Wiktionary02
This diner serves ketchup in red bottles, and mustard in yellow ones.
Wiktionary03
The bottles, however, were port bottles, but contained mushroom ketchup; […]
Wiktionary04
It strikes me she's "ketchupped" the lot! I won't touch a morsel!
Wiktionary05
"Well," said Chuck, ketchupping his hamburger, "I'd rather do without King Lear than put up with the human agony it sprang out of. I'd rather not have the Eroica than have the big bloody conqueror it
Wiktionary06
Their fellow diners, like their ketchupped grub, were appropriately dashed and splattered with paint and plaster, reading their Suns and Daily Mirror.
WiktionaryUsage Notes
i Register
In some senses, ketchup is marked as archaic, UK, US. Watch for register when choosing this word.
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