Watergate salad

noun

A sweet dessert salad made with pistachio-flavoured instant pudding, whipped topping, crushed pineapple, and small marshmallows, and sometimes other ingredients.

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Meanings

nounWatergate salad (plural Watergate salads)

plural Watergate salads

  1. A sweet dessert salad made with pistachio-flavoured instant pudding, whipped topping, crushed pineapple, and small marshmallows, and sometimes other ingredients.

Origin

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Watergate salad. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Watergate%20salad

MLA

“Watergate salad.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Watergate%20salad. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Watergate salad,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Watergate%20salad.

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