Definition of Tater

1. Noun. An edible tuber native to South America; a staple food of Ireland.


Definition of Tater

1. Noun. (British US informal) A potato. ¹

2. Noun. (US baseball slang) A home run ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Tater

1. a potato [n -S] - See also: potato

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tater

tat
tata for now
tataki
tatakis
tatami
tatamis
tatars
tatarskite
tataupa
tataupas
tatch
tatches
tatee
tategyoji
tater (current term)
taters
tates
tath
tathed
tathing
taths
tatie
taties
tatkal
tatler
tatlers
tatonnement
tatonnements
tatou

Literary usage of Tater

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The English Illustrated Magazine (1907)
"The nearest approach to a bed tater had ever known was the bit of sacking she slept on ... tater sometimes played with toys, and she once possessed a doll. ..."

2. Pieces People Ask For, Serious, Humorous, Pathetic, Patriotic, and Dramatic edited by George Melville Baker (1908)
"tater! tater! Best bread made by Nater 1 No baker alive could make a tater. In Ireland, where earth is so fertile and turfy, They mispronounce tater by ..."

3. Mackenzie's Five Thousand Receipts: In All the Useful and Domestic Arts by Colin MacKenzie (1854)
"... dirty tater, and proceed as before with honer water without pearl-ash. If л black, blue, or brown coat, dry 2 ounces of fuller's earth, »nd pour on it ..."

4. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1874)
"One day I was roast in' of a tater in the ashes, when I observed Rough a-settin' off by the door a-watchin' me out of the corner of his eye. ..."

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