french-fried potatoes

singular french-fried potato

1. pluralplural normallyAlternative letter-case form of French-fried potatoes.

   He ordered panfish that was served with creamy coleslaw and some french-fried potatoes.

   2012, Brenda Smith, Insane Circumstances, Xlibris, →ISBN, page 229

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   There had to be a secret something to make french fries that good. / Now, to most people, a french-fried potato is a pretty uninspiring object. It’s fodder, something to kill time chewing between bites of hamburger and swallows of milk shake. That’s your ordinary french fry. The McDonald’s french fry was in an entirely different league.

   1977, Ray Kroc, Robert Anderson, Grinding It Out: The Making of McDonald’s, Contemporary Books, →ISBN, page 9

   He ate quickly, as it is easy to do with fried food—opening a tartar sauce, dipping pieces of fish, lifting a few french fries, stabbing them into the ketchup, then biting them, and repeating. He ate his while it was hot, holding his fork for the coleslaw and, every now and then, tasting it. He watched Christina feeling closer to her and thought, maybe it was the pleasure of the food. He watched her open a small-side container of clear liquid, dip a french-fried potato into it, and then eat it.

   2008, Tige Lewis Quintina, Gelatin Silver Print, Xlibris, →ISBN, page 118

singular French-fried potato · alternative French fried potatoes · alternative french fried potatoes · alternative french-fried potatoes

1. pluralplural normallySynonym of French fries.

   George’s mutton chop congealed on the plate untouched. The French-fried potatoes cooled off, unnoticed. This was no time for food.

   1919 May 17, Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, “A Damsel in Distress”, in George Horace Lorimer, editor, The Saturday Evening Post, volume 191, number 46, Philadelphia, Pa.: The Curtis Publishing Company, →ISSN, chapter V, page 89, column 4

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   'Soft-shell crabs with tartare sauce, flat beef Hamburgers, medium-rare, from the charcoal grill, french-fried potatoes, broccoli, mixed salad with thousand-island dressing, ice-cream with melted butterscotch and as good a Liebfraumilch as you can get in America. Okay?'

   1954, Ian Fleming, “The Red Carpet”, in Live and Let Die, London: Pan Books, published 1957, page 9

   Synonyms: French fries