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TV dinner en · NOUN

Pronunciation

Etymology

Originally used for a brand of packaged meal (TV Brand Frozen Dinner) developed in 1953 for Swanson & Sons.

Meanings

  1. A prepackaged meal purchased chilled or frozen and heated at home.
    • Like foil-tray frozen meals, which were used by airlines before Swanson branded them as “TV dinners,” Twitter was not initially invented to be an adjunct to the tube. 2023 July 10, James Poniewozik, “The Twitter Watch Party Is Over”, in The New York Times:

Forms

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TV dinners Number=Plur lexicographic

Hyponyms

frozen dinner

Synonyms

ready meal · microwave meal