(transitive) To cover with ketchup.
“Do you have a ketchup secret? / S04E16 The Shoes”
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Ketchup means: To cover with ketchup.. There is no real cause for parental concern; it is descriptive vocabulary rather than risky behaviour. If your teen uses it, context will usually make the intent clear. A short, curious question about where they heard it is usually all that is needed to know whether to follow up.
Slang is read by different audiences for very different reasons. The For parents view re-explains the term in plain, non-judgemental language so a caregiver can understand what their child means without needing the surrounding subculture. The For English learners view focuses on register (when it's safe to use), formal alternatives, and common mistakes — what a textbook won't teach you.
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UK and Irish slang — Cockney, Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Glaswegian, Brummie, Welsh, West Country, plus Irish English. Centuries of regional dialects feeding into modern British and Irish street talk.
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i might be outing myself as white but sometimes i like to mix refried beans with mashed potato flakes and then eat the resulting abomination with ketchup & sometimes EVOO if i let it cool first (heat deflavors the EVOO)
“somewhere out there is the camera angle where you see the secret service agent squeeze the ketchup on his ear in their little football huddle on the stage before they lift his bloated old sack back to its feet for the photo op bet that's funny to watch”
“With ketchup? Absolutely not!”
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(countable, now, rare) Such a sauce more generally (not necessarily based on tomatoes, but with mushrooms, fish, etc.). This is the older meaning.
This diner serves ketchup in red bottles, and mustard in yellow ones.
“There are no wrong answers (though if someone said ketchup or mayo I might look at them strangely)”
“Yes, yes I know how you feel about this but the HP pulls it all together...ketchup just wont do!”
“i might be outing myself as white but sometimes i like to mix refried beans with mashed potato flakes and then eat the resulting abomination with ketchup & sometimes EVOO if i let it cool first (heat deflavors the EVOO)”
“Fact of the day: 76% of UK households have ketchup in their cupboards.”
“You need something that will push it out. Try the ketchup song, it should do the job.”
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