tater

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a potato; an informal or dialectal term

   She called from the kitchen to ask whether the taters were ready.

2. 2
   noun

   in North American baseball slang, a home run

   The batter hit a towering tater into the upper deck.

An informal form of potato produced by dropping the unstressed opening syllable and reducing the ending. It is widespread in dialectal and playful speech. The baseball sense of "home run" is later North American slang.

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