Definition of ketchup
:a seasoned pureed condiment usually made from tomatoes
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Examples of ketchup in a Sentence
She put ketchup on her hamburger.
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Griffin dispatched her assistant to find a Trump mask and a friend made fake blood using ketchup.
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Stir in the calamansi juice, garlic, pepper, and ketchup until well incorporated.
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Anna Tominack, Alex's special education teachers for five years, shared school-day memories of Alex, including his boundless energy when going on walks with classmates during school, his love of ketchup, and his fondness for playing golf.
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Guidotti has lived for five years in the Chicago area, where Vienna Beef franks are popular and ketchup on dogs—Heinz or otherwise—isn’t.
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While Trump takes his steaks well-done with ketchup when not eating Big Macs and Filet-O-Fish, Scaramucci frequents Hunt & Fish Club for veal parmigiana, decked out in Loro Piana suits.
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Different scenarios began popping up on Twitter, ranging from getting extra packets of ketchup at McDonald's to interacting with cute, fluffy dogs.
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One of my indispensable ingredients, believe it or not, is ketchup, the base of this weirdly delicious stir-fry made special with smoked paprika.
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This attitude is not exclusive to barbecue: New Yorkers scoff at the idea of bagels from the West Coast, Kentuckians quickly dismiss whiskey that’s made elsewhere, and Chicagoans get so angry when people put ketchup on hot dogs.
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Origin and Etymology of ketchup
borrowed, directly or via Malay kecap (phonetically kətʃap) "fish sauce," from Southern Min (Chinese dialects of southeast Fujian) kôe-chiap (Xiamen), kê-chiap (Zhangzhou), from kôe, kê "salted or pickled fish or shellfish" + chiap "juice, sap"
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:a thick seasoned sauce made from tomatoes
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