The Collaborative International Dictionary
ketchup \ketch"up\, n. [Probably of East Indian origin, because
it was originally a kind of East Indian pickles. Cf. also
Malay k[e^]chap fish sauce.
--MW10.]
A pureed table sauce made predominantly from tomatoes,
flavored with onions, sugar, salt and spices; called also
tomato ketchup. The term is also applied to pureed sauces
containing mushrooms, walnuts, etc., being called in such
cases mushroom ketchup, walnut ketchup, etc. [Written
also catsup and catchup.]
Catchup \Catch"up\, Catsup \Cat"sup\, n. [Probably of East
Indian origin, because it was originally a kind of East
Indian pickles. Cf. also Malay k[e^]chap fish sauce.
--MW10.]
A pureed table sauce made predominantly from tomatoes,
flavored with onions, sugar, salt and spices; called also
tomato ketchup. The term is also applied to pureed sauces
containing mushrooms, walnuts, etc., being called in such
cases mushroom ketchup, walnut ketchup, etc. [Written
also ketchup.]
WordNet
Usage examples of "tomato ketchup".
He then demanded tomato ketchup in the middle of dinner, and proceeded to drench his sea trout with it, which everyone except his hostess and Tory thought wildly funny.
Gary looked at the bill on their table, counted out pound coins, and dropped them onto the Formica, where they sat beside a plastic tomato ketchup container in the shape of an oversized tomato, old ketchup caked black about its nozzle.
But if you looked closely (not that you'd ever want to) you would see tiny little specks of dried-up scrambled eggs stuck to the hairs, and spinach and tomato ketchup and fish fingers and minced chicken livers and all the other disgusting things Mr Twit liked to eat.
On the table huge crystal girandoles alternated with bottles of tomato ketchup and Worcestershire sauce.
From under the mannequins skirt, the nurse pulls a mass of pink gelatin smeared with tomato ketchup.
Angelica's greasepaint make-up was a pale bluish grey, her hair a mass of tomato ketchup.
Splashes of it had hit the wall behind the basin and there were three oval blots of it on the floor, It was bright and shiny, very fresh and not at all like tomato ketchup.
He looks longingly at the last of the fish fingers which Sammy is smothering with tomato ketchup.