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smashed potatoes

smashed potatoes noun: chunky mashed potatoes; mashed potatoes with chunks of potatoes in it. Also the plural of smashed potato.

Noun

smashed potatoes pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) chunky mashed potatoes; mashed potatoes with chunks of potatoes in it

Also used as

smashed potatoes is also the plural of smashed potato.

Origin of smashed potatoes

From smash + potato from the apparentness of it being the result a potato being violently smashed, leaving mashed bits and chunks.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Questions about smashed potatoes

What does smashed potatoes mean?
Smashed potatoes means chunky mashed potatoes; mashed potatoes with chunks of potatoes in it.
What part of speech is smashed potatoes?
Smashed potatoes is a noun.

Words near smashed potatoes in the dictionary

  1. smashed and dashed
  2. smashed and grabbed
  3. smashed down
  4. smashed it
  5. smashed potato
  6. smashed potatoes
  7. smashed someone's face in
  8. smashed someone's head
  9. smashed the stack
  10. smashed up
  11. smasher

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