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tableful en · NOUN

Etymology

From table + -ful.

Meanings

1. As much as fills a table.
   • It was a perverse amount of meat — enough to slay a tableful of hungry eaters and send everyone home with a to-go pack of smoky ’cue — and even with gas money figured in it was wildly cheaper than anything in the city. 2007 March 7, Peter Meehan, “The Big Apple May Never Be Known as the Big Sparerib, but It’s Smokin’”, in New York Times:

Forms

Translations (3)

ca taulada (as much as fills a table) · fi pöydällinen (as much as fills a table) · ru засто́лье (as much as fills a table)