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tater tots

tater tots is the plural of tater tot.

Meaning of tater tot

Noun

tater tot (plural tater tots)

  1. (Canada, US) A small, cylindrical piece of grated potato, usually deep-fried.
    • For sandwiches, you might sink your teeth into a Cape Cod reuben with crispy cod, Swiss and coleslaw with tater tots or sweet potato fries, fried chicken and waffle sandwich with maple aioli, or bacon jam burger — maple bourbon bacon jam, gorgonzola, fried egg, arugula, tomato.2022 June 12, Lauren Daley, “How to eat through Blackstone Valley in a weekend”, in Boston Globe
    Synonyms:
    potato tot, tot

Proper noun capitalized: Tater Tots

Tater Tots

  1. Alternative letter-case form of tater tots.
    • What would a school lunch be without Tater Tots?

Words formed from tater tots

Questions about tater tots

What is tater tots the plural of?
Tater tots is the plural of tater tot.
What part of speech is tater tots?
Tater tots is a proper noun.

Words near tater tots in the dictionary

  1. Tatem
  2. Tatems
  3. Tateng
  4. tater
  5. tater tot
  6. tater tots
  7. taterapox
  8. tateril
  9. taterils
  10. taters
  11. taters in the mould

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tater tots (page history and authors); Tater Tots (page history and authors); tater tot (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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