Meanings
plural tater tots
- CanadaUSA small, cylindrical piece of grated potato, usually deep-fried.
For sandwiches, you might sink your teeth into a Cape Cod reuben with crispy cod, Swiss and coleslaw with tater tots or sweet potato fries, fried chicken and waffle sandwich with maple aioli, or bacon jam burger — maple bourbon bacon jam, gorgonzola, fried egg, arugula, tomato.
2022 June 12, Lauren Daley, “How to eat through Blackstone Valley in a weekend”, in Boston GlobeSynonyms: potato tot, tot
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA small, cylindrical piece of grated potato, usually deep-fried.
Origin
An appellativization of the trademark Tater Tot.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Finnish perunakroketti
- perunakrokettismall cylindrical piece of grated potato, usually deep-fried
French tater tot
- tater totsmall cylindrical piece of grated potato, usually deep-fried
German Kartoffelkrokette
- Kartoffelkrokettesmall cylindrical piece of grated potato, usually deep-fried
Italian crocchetta, cazzillo
- crocchettasmall cylindrical piece of grated potato, usually deep-fried
- cazzillosmall cylindrical piece of grated potato, usually deep-fried
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tater tot. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tater%20tot
“tater tot.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tater%20tot. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “tater tot,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tater%20tot.
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