potato

Meanings

Plural: potatoes

Noun

• an edible tuber native to South America; a staple food of Ireland
• annual native to South America having underground stolons bearing edible starchy tubers; widely cultivated as a garden vegetable; vines are poisonous
• Solanum tuberosum or its edible starchy tuber.
• A sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas)
• A conspicuous hole in a sock or stocking.
• A person or animal shaped like a potato, that is, with a large belly and/or short legs.
• Metaphor for a person or thing of little value.
• A mentally handicapped person.
• Metaphor for a person or thing of little value.
• A camera that takes poor-quality pictures.
• Metaphor for a person or thing of little value.
• An underpowered computer or other device, especially when small in size.
• Metaphor for a person or thing of little value.

Verb

• To hit very hard; to pummel.
• To hit with a thrown or fired potato.

Intj

• The rhythmic sound produced by a V-twin engine—a distinctive deep, throaty exhaust note.

Synonyms

bog orange, Donovan, earthapple, Irish apricot, Irish fruit, Irish potato, mickey, murphy, p'tater, Solanum tuberosum, spud, tater, tatie, tator, toaster, white potato, white potato vine

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