"TV dinner" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "Originally used for a brand of packaged meal (TV Brand Frozen Dinner) developed in 1953 for Swanson & Sons.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "TV dinners",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
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  ],
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      "expansion": "TV dinner (plural TV dinners)",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "kind": "topical",
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          "name": "Foods",
          "orig": "en:Foods",
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            "Eating",
            "Food and drink",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2023 July 10, James Poniewozik, “The Twitter Watch Party Is Over”, in The New York Times",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A prepackaged meal purchased frozen and heated at home."
      ],
      "id": "en-TV_dinner-en-noun-7-Uf9SI~",
      "links": [
        [
          "frozen",
          "frozen"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "frozen dinner"
        },
        {
          "word": "microwave meal"
        },
        {
          "word": "ready meal"
        }
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "TV dinner"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "TV dinner"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "Originally used for a brand of packaged meal (TV Brand Frozen Dinner) developed in 1953 for Swanson & Sons.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "TV dinners",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "TV dinner (plural TV dinners)",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Foods"
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        {
          "ref": "2023 July 10, James Poniewozik, “The Twitter Watch Party Is Over”, in The New York Times",
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        }
      ],
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        "A prepackaged meal purchased frozen and heated at home."
      ],
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          "frozen",
          "frozen"
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      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "frozen dinner"
        },
        {
          "word": "microwave meal"
        },
        {
          "word": "ready meal"
        }
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  "word": "TV dinner"
}