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meat-and-potatoes

meat-and-potatoes is the alternative spelling of meat and potatoes.

Meaning of meat and potatoes

Adjective

meat and potatoes (comparative more meat and potatoes, superlative most meat and potatoes)

  1. (informal) Normal, average, typical, unexceptional, or nondescript.
    • Rick is very experimental and open-minded about trying new things, but Ted is a meat and potatoes kind of guy.

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Forms of meat-and-potatoes

comparativemore meat-and-potatoes
superlativemost meat-and-potatoes

Questions about meat-and-potatoes

What is meat-and-potatoes the alternative spelling of?
Meat-and-potatoes is the alternative spelling of meat and potatoes.

Words near meat-and-potatoes in the dictionary

  1. meat tray
  2. meat trays
  3. meat wagon
  4. meat wagons
  5. meat wool
  6. meat-and-potatoes
  7. meat-chopper
  8. meat-choppers
  9. meat-eater
  10. meat-eaters
  11. meat-eating

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