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KECH-uh-p/ˈketʃəp/

Ketchup is a cold tomato sauce: tomato ketchup, ketchup with chips, a bottle of ketchup. Sauce is the wider word. Mayonnaise and mustard are other table sauces. British chips often come with ketchup or vinegar. Uncountable: some ketchup, not “a ketchup” unless you mean a bottle in loose talk. Do not write catch-up (reach the same point) for ketchup.

Meaning

A cold tomato sauce, often eaten with chips.

Examples

• “Would you like ketchup with your chips?”
• “He asked for extra ketchup with his burger.”
• “There was no ketchup left in the hostel kitchen.”

Good to know

tomato ketchup / ketchup with chips (often uncountable). Cousin: sauce. Mix-up: catch up.

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