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potato-quality

potato-quality adjective: of exceptionally poor quality; low-resolution, grainy, or blurry.

Adjective

potato-quality (comparative more potato-quality, superlative most potato-quality)

  1. (Internet) Of exceptionally poor quality; low-resolution, grainy, or blurry.
    • What good about photography is that we save money on diet pills by going out with a camera, and we don't have potato quality Instagram selfie!2015, Bin Feng, quoted in "Bin Feng", Art Reveal Magazine, Number 4 (2015), page 21
    • Take a long, critical look at the video for "Never Gonna Give You Up." Its meme cache stems primarily from the dated, campy potato-quality grain.2016 October 13, Alicia Lepler, “Album Review: 50 By Rick Astley”, in The Guardian, University of California, San Diego, page 9

Forms of potato-quality

comparativemore potato-quality
superlativemost potato-quality
alternative formpotato quality

Origin of potato-quality

From potato (“cheap camera”) + quality.

Questions about potato-quality

What does potato-quality mean?
Potato-quality means of exceptionally poor quality; low-resolution, grainy, or blurry.
What part of speech is potato-quality?
Potato-quality is an adjective.

Words near potato-quality in the dictionary

  1. potato-heads
  2. potato-masher
  3. potato-mashers
  4. potato-phile
  5. potato-philes
  6. potato-quality
  7. potato-y
  8. potatoe
  9. potatoed
  10. potatoes
  11. potatoes and point

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