potato

Less common meanings

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   sweet rootnounobsoletecountable

   The sweet potato, a sweet root with orange, pale or purple flesh that grows underground.

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   worthless thingnoundatedcountable

   A person or thing seen as worthless or not important.

   Similarnobody, nonentity, cipher

   Oppositesomebody

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   disability slurnounslangoffensivecountable

   A rude and hurtful word for a person with an intellectual disability.

   Some kids called the boy with a learning disability a potato.

   Calling a person with a learning disability a potato is cruel.

   UsageSay person with an intellectual disability instead.

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   sock holenouncolloquialUKcountable

   A large, obvious hole worn through a sock or stocking.

   This sock has a potato so big that my whole heel shows.

   He wiggled his toe through the potato in his sock.

   UsageSay a potato in your sock.

   Similarhole

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   verbslang

   In wrestling shows, to really hit another wrestler hard instead of only pretending.

   Bradshaw doesn't find much humour in it though, and beats the tar out of Dustin, potatoing him with every blow.

   2014, James Dixon, Arnold Furious
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   verb

   To hit someone or something with a thrown or fired potato.
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    interjection

    The deep, chugging sound made by a V-twin motorcycle engine.