Usually means: Tomato-based condiment, sweet and tangy.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. ketchup: Merriam-Webster
  2. ketchup: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ketchup: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. ketchup: Collins English Dictionary
  5. ketchup: Vocabulary.com
  6. Ketchup, ketchup: Wordnik
  7. ketchup: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. ketchup: Wiktionary
  9. ketchup: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. ketchup (catchup or catsup): The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. ketchup: Dictionary.com
  12. ketchup: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. ketchup: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Ketchup (Adventure Time), Ketchup (disambiguation), Ketchup (mixtape), Ketchup: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Ketchup: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. ketchup: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. ketchup: Rhymezone
  18. Ketchup (nt), ketchup, ketchup, ketchup, ketchup (de): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. ketchup: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. Ketchup: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  21. ketchup: FreeDictionary.org
  22. ketchup: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. ketchup: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. ketchup: Infoplease Dictionary
  25. ketchup: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ketchup: Linda's Culinary Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ketchup: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. BBC Food Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See ketchuping as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (countable, now rare) Such a sauce more generally (not necessarily based on tomatoes, but with mushrooms, fish, etc.). This is the older meaning.
verb:  (transitive) To cover with ketchup.
noun:  (uncountable, chiefly US, Canada, UK) Ellipsis of tomato ketchup. A tomato-vinegar-based sauce, sometimes containing spices, onion or garlic, and (especially in the US) sweeteners.

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