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countable and uncountable, plural ketchups
(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. examples
(countable, now rare) Such a sauce more generally (not necessarily based on tomatoes, but with mushrooms, fish, etc.). This is the older meaning. quotations
The bottles, however, were port bottles, but contained mushroom ketchup; […]
1883, Cassell's Dictionary of Cookery, page lxxxiii
To accompany meat, we prepare fruit ketchups and rhubarb chutney.
2003, Inns and Bed and Breakfasts in Quebec 2003, Ulysses Travel Guides, page 46
third-person singular simple present ketchups, present participle ketchupping, simple past and past participle ketchupped
(transitive) To cover with ketchup. quotations examples
It strikes me she's "ketchupped" the lot! I won't touch a morsel!
1867, John Maddison Morton, Aunt Charlotte's maid: a farce in one act
"Well," said Chuck, ketchupping his hamburger, "I'd rather do without King Lear than put up with the human agony it sprang out of. I'd rather not have the Eroica than have the big bloody conqueror it tries to immortalize."
1973, Horizon, page 15
Their fellow diners, like their ketchupped grub, were appropriately dashed and splattered with paint and plaster, reading their Suns and Daily Mirror.
2009, David Silverman, Twinkle, page 4