Ketchup

Definitions

1. Ellipsis of tomato ketchup (“a tomato-vinegar-based sauce, sometimes containing spices, onion or garlic, and (especially in the US) sweeteners”).
   Canada, UK, US, abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, uncountable
2. Such a sauce more generally (not necessarily based on tomatoes, but with mushrooms, fish, etc.). This is the older meaning.
   archaic, countable

Equivalents

Examples

“tomato ketchup”

“This diner serves ketchup in red bottles, and mustard in yellow ones.”

“The bottles, however, were port bottles, but contained mushroom ketchup; […]”

“To accompany⟳ meat, we prepare⟳ fruit ketchups and rhubarb chutney.”

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