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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
tater
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ One day soon when she has a garden again, she will plant taters of her own, whole rows of them.
▪ She sighs, but peeling the taters is having its usual calming effect.
▪ There is something about taters, something deeply satisfying, even in the peeling of them.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
tater

1759, representing colloquial pronunciation of potato.

Wiktionary
tater

n. 1 (context British US informal English) A potato. 2 (context US baseball slang English) A home run

WordNet
tater

n. an edible tuber native to South America; a staple food of Ireland [syn: potato, white potato, Irish potato, murphy, spud]

Wikipedia
Tater

Tater may refer to:

  • Tater (or long tater), baseball jargon for a home run
  • Tater Salad, nickname of American comedian Ron White
  • A typical Clemson Tigers fan
  • Tater, a Southern United States and northern English slang term for a potato
  • Tater tot, a deep-fried grated potato side-dish similar to hash browns

Usage examples of "tater".

That infuriated Grayson, who, after throwing a tantrum and insisting that Rebecca put Frank out, which she would not, scooped up Tater and marched off to his room, slamming the door behind him.

Bean never seemed to notice Tater at all, which was probably just as well.

Rebecca, Jo Lynn, and of course, Bean, Frank, and Tater, all came out onto the front porch to watch them as the monster bus rumbled down the gravel road to her house.

Rebecca escaped outside, to the east side of the huge, six-thousand-square-foot ranch house, sat on a porch swing with Frank, Bean, and Tater forming a living, but exhausted, dog shield around her feet.

Robin shouted after her, but Rebecca kept walking, out onto the porch, down the steps and across the lawn, where Frank, Bean, and Tater picked up her scent and came trotting out from their nap under the porch.

Frank and Bean, and probably Tater, too, how no one wanted throw-away dogs.

But of all the dogs, Grayson loved Tater the best, because his father had given the dog to him.

Grayson good night, left him to dream about frogs while Tater dozed on the floor next to his bed.

Fat little Tater looked up at her in wonder, as if she were a doggie food angel sent from heaven.

Bean never saw the stick, Tot was afraid of the water, and Tater was disinclined Matt and Rebecca lay on a quilt beneath a pecan tree and talked.

My God, just hand me that bag of Tater Skins and a napkin, do I have to do it myself like everything else around here?

I poked him a little and he just sort of moaned with that empty bag of Tater Skins in his hand, he looks sort of yellow.

Black Bean Nacho Chips and Tater Skins with another pull at the brown sock as afternoon displaced the morning and the conquest of Africa eighteen thousand dollars the richer had long since given way to the interminable war between the animal and vegetable kingdoms on the nature program where a potato leaf under attack by a caterpillar provoked a lethal case of indigestion in its assailant and a belch from the solitary audience intruded upon with suggestions for his departure by bus?

Daiv made a happy-face and carefully turned the scorching tater slices.

The old woman, with her tater, sweet flag, sugar rags, ciderberry juice and Black Jack, keeps every one in a healthy condition.