"blue-plate special" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "blue-plate specials",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "blue-plate special (plural blue-plate specials)",
      "name": "en-noun"
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1928 December 2, Bertram Reinitz, “Where New York Dines on Dime”, in New York Time, page 162",
          "text": "His big blue plate special, with meat course and three vegetables, is purchasable for a quarter.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1968, Erik Barnouw, A History of Broadcasting in the United States: The Golden Web: 1933 to 1953, Oxford, page 36",
          "text": "Most had stayed at the convention hotel, but at dinner time many went across the street for the fifty-cent blue plate special.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "A popular meal offered at a reduced price, usually in inexpensive eateries and often on a plate divided into compartments for different food items."
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          "meal",
          "meal"
        ],
        [
          "reduced",
          "reduced"
        ],
        [
          "price",
          "price"
        ],
        [
          "inexpensive",
          "inexpensive"
        ],
        [
          "eateries",
          "eatery"
        ],
        [
          "plate",
          "plate"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(chiefly US, dated) A popular meal offered at a reduced price, usually in inexpensive eateries and often on a plate divided into compartments for different food items."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "blue-light special"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "blue plate special"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US",
        "dated"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "blue-plate special"
}

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "blue-plate specials",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "blue-plate special (plural blue-plate specials)",
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  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "blue-light special"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "American English",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English dated terms",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1928 December 2, Bertram Reinitz, “Where New York Dines on Dime”, in New York Time, page 162",
          "text": "His big blue plate special, with meat course and three vegetables, is purchasable for a quarter.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1968, Erik Barnouw, A History of Broadcasting in the United States: The Golden Web: 1933 to 1953, Oxford, page 36",
          "text": "Most had stayed at the convention hotel, but at dinner time many went across the street for the fifty-cent blue plate special.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A popular meal offered at a reduced price, usually in inexpensive eateries and often on a plate divided into compartments for different food items."
      ],
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        ],
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        ],
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          "plate",
          "plate"
        ]
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        "(chiefly US, dated) A popular meal offered at a reduced price, usually in inexpensive eateries and often on a plate divided into compartments for different food items."
      ],
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        "US",
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      ]
    }
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "blue plate special"
    }
  ],
  "word": "blue-plate special"
}