"marry the ketchup" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: marries the ketchup [present, singular, third-person], marrying the ketchup [participle, present], married the ketchup [participle, past], married the ketchup [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} marry the ketchup (third-person singular simple present marries the ketchup, present participle marrying the ketchup, simple past and past participle married the ketchup)
  1. (idiomatic) To combine ketchup from half-empty bottles in a restaurant, in order to reduce the number of bottles. Tags: idiomatic Synonyms: marry the ketchups
    Sense id: en-marry_the_ketchup-en-verb-aWrTu~p- Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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