Meanings
plural roasties
- slangA roast potato.
Miriam gave a squawk of dismay as she lifted the lid off the potatoes. 'How are the roasties doing?'
2015, Patricia Scanlan, Mirror, Mirror2 more examples
My dad made crispy, rough-edged roasties lovingly cooked in beef dripping but I perversely much preferred the drier, soak-up-the-gravy ones we had at school.
2008, Becky Thorn, School Dinners[…] I keep quiet when Billie piles the roasties on my plate, scoffing everything put in front of me.
2013, Niven Govinden, Graffiti My Soul, page 64 - slangA roast beef sandwich.
- derogatoryvulgarincel slangA woman, especially a promiscuous one.
Defy me and you will regret it, roastie.
2019, S. J. Maher, Social Misconduct, page 1512 more examples
“Shut the fuck up roastie,” wrote anonymous Twitter users with anime images as their avatars.
2019, Tal Lavin (writing as Talia Lavin), Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy, unnumbered page[…] and "Stacy" denotes an attractive "roastie," a promiscuous young woman.
2020, Anne Hendershott, The Politics of Envy, unnumbered page
Origin
From roast + -ie. The Internet slang sense likens a (promiscuous) woman's vulva to the filling of a roast beef sandwich.
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roastie. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/roastie
“roastie.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/roastie. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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