French fried potato
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: She picked up a French fried potato in her fingers and began to eat it.
ref: 1943, McCall’s, page 85:
text: Travels of a French fried potato: In your mouth a few minutes, in your stomach a few hours, on your hips the rest of your life.
ref: 1944, Pacific Oil World, page 31:
text: Would it not be better, argue some, to sacrifice three sales out of ten, made on the pure convenience appeal, in favor of six out of a possible ten which might be procured on the basis of a crisper, browner French fried potato?
ref: 1964, Quick Frozen Foods, page 35:
text: The plaintiff testified that she noticed a sticky and slimy chocolate colored substance three to four inches in length (a French fried potato) on the floor.
ref: 1972, Albert Averbach, Handling Accident Cases, The Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, pages 136–137:
text: I was the first person in the world to throw a French fried potato onto an ice floe and watch it freeze.
ref: 1980, Howard Moss, Two Plays, New York, N.Y.: The Sheep Meadow Press/Flying Point Books, →ISBN, page 93:
text: The evident enjoyment with which he dipped a French fried potato into a glob of ketchup, then plopped it into his mouth, repaid Kristi in part.
ref: 1984, Beatrice Warren, Nurse Kristi’s Secret, Avalon Books, →ISBN, page 141:
text: ‘The French fried potato has become an inescapable horror in almost every public eating house in the country’ (Russell Baker).
ref: 1987, Denis Grogan, Grogan’s Case Studies in Reference Work, London: Clive Bingley, →ISBN, page 110:
text: She dabbed a French fried potato in a glob of catsup, but stopped midway, placing it on her plate again.
ref: 1988, Paula Williams, Lovesong, Pageant Books, →ISBN, page 146:
text: He picked up a French fried potato, stabbed it into the ketchup and put it in his mouth.
ref: 1992, Benjamin Cheever, The Plagiarist, Atheneum, →ISBN, page 17:
text: He occasionally paused and cut a French fried potato in half and placed it—with his fork—into his mouth.
ref: 2000, Douglas Bond, “Johann Michael Altenburg, 1584–1640”, in Mr. Pipes and Psalms and Hymns of the Reformation, Arlington Heights, Ill.: Christian Liberty Press, →ISBN, page 71:
text: Not a French fried potato in sight, just your choice of tasty, healthy food.
ref: 2001, Alistair Mackenzie, Katie Jones, editors, Dubai Explorer, Explorer Publishing, →ISBN, page 278:
text: She reached over and picked up a French fried potato.
ref: 2003, Edward Alexander Batory/Paul Peterson, The Bible Burners, iUniverse, Inc., →ISBN:
text: Skipper put a French fried potato into his mouth and nudged Gil.
ref: 2003, Sylvia Snyder, The Sawdust Festival, iUniverse, Inc., →ISBN:
text: He selected a movie titled “Wonderful Time,” in which he and his close friend were filmed in a thrilling game that involved picking up a French fried potato from blocks.
ref: 2015, Shigeru Ikuta, Diane Morton, Mikiko Kasai, Fumio Nemoto, Masaki Ohtaka, Mieko Horiguchi, “School Activities with New Dot Code Handling Multimedia”, in Lesia Lennex, Kimberely Fletcher Nettleton, editors, Cases on Instructional Technology in Gifted and Talented Education (Advances in Early Childhood and K–12 Education), Information Science Reference, →ISBN, section 5 (Teacher Training), page 323:
text: Derreck dipped a French fried potato in some ketchup and stuffed it in his mouth.
ref: 2016, Cassius Mullen, Betty Byron, Living for This Moment, Page Publishing, Inc., →ISBN:
glosses: singular of French fried potatoes