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ketchup

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun ketchup has 1 sense

ketchup(n = noun.food) catsup, cetchup, tomato ketchup - thick spicy sauce made from tomatoes; Array

is a kind of condiment

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CIDE DICTIONARY

ketchup, n. [Probably of East Indian origin, because it was originally a kind of East Indian pickles. Cf. also Malay k fish sauce. MW10.].

A pureed table sauce made predominantly from tomatoes, flavored with onions, sugar, salt and spices; called also tomato ketchup. The term is also applied to pureed sauces containing mushrooms, walnuts, etc., being called in such cases mushroom ketchup, walnut ketchup, etc. [PJC]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

ketchup, n. (also catchup) a spicy sauce made from tomatoes, mushrooms, vinegar, etc., used as a condiment.

Etymology

Chin. dial. koechiap pickled-fish brine

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