potato

IPA: pʌtˈeɪtoʊ

The tuber of a plant, Solanum tuberosum, eaten as a starchy vegetable, particularly in the Americas and Europe; this plant.
(informal, UK) A conspicuous hole in a sock or stocking.
Metaphor for a person or thing of little value.
(slang, offensive) A mentally handicapped person.
(humorous) A camera that takes poor-quality pictures.
(humorous, slang, computing) An underpowered computer or other device, especially when small in size.

Examples of "potato" in Sentences

At first they look pretty awful - this is what she calls the potato wedge phase - but she fits them to my teeth over and over again.
The Marathi term for pan-frying is paratne, and potato translates as batata, hence the Marathi name for this dish is paratlele batate.
Both the yellow and orange forms are varieties of Ipomoea batatas whose species name is the native American source of our word potato.
Vice-President Dan Quayle famously advised a young schoolboy to add the letter "e" to the end of the word "potato" during a spelling exercise.
Math is “maths,” an elevator is a “lift,” a truck is a “lorry,” a flashlight is a “torch,” and “crisps” are what they call potato chips, while “chips” over here means French fries.
Financial Times pronounced its Kettle Brand sea salt and balsamic vinegar chips tops in a taste test of "gourmet salt and vinegar crisps" which is what they call potato chips over there.
Mr Nahigian was blamed by Dan Quayle for the notorious 1992 incident in which the then vice-president misspelt the word potato - adding an "e" on the end after, he said, Mr Nahigian had failed to notice the error on a cue card.