tostito

plural tostitos

1. Alternative letter-case form of Tostito.

   “I've never heard of a husband being campaign manager,” Campy said, dipping a tostito into the guacamole dish.

   2008, Sharon Young, “Campaign”, in Madame President, →ISBN, page 106

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   She might plan to pass out a tostito to each participant to munch on during the introduction to the session as she greets them in Spanish, “Hola! Buenos Dias, Amigos. Como esta ustedes?”

   1982, Anne H. Thurman, Carol Ann Piggins, “Planning a Session with a Unifying Theme”, in Drama Activities with Older Adults: A Handbook for Leaders (Activities, Adaptation & Aging; volume 2, numbers 2/3), London; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, published 2008, →ISBN, page 110

   It’s like all anyone eats is, you can’t eat it, that stuff, you can’t eat it. Phony cheese dip that someone sticks in a microwave and then they pour it on a tostito. It’s worse than Velveeta, that stuff.

   2020, Theresa Rebeck, “The Nest”, in Lawrence Harbison, editor, The Best Men’s Monologues from New Plays, 2019 (The Applause Acting Series), Guilford, Conn.: Applause Theatre & Cinema Books, →ISBN, page 118

plural Tostitos · alternative tostito

1. A tortilla chip of the Tostitos brand.

   “Hey, the Boston Tea Party worked too,” said Dennis Martin, a Brigham Young marketing professor who helped stage a Tostito-torching party this week.

   1996 December 15, Earl Gustkey, “When the Chips Are Down, Put Them in a Bowl”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 Jun 2025

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   But recently Columbia University introduced “Comedy Writers’ Room,” a master class in writing a sitcom pilot, taught by Tom Leopold, a former writer on “Cheers” and “Seinfeld.” The idea was to re-create the Hollywood “room,” where Tostito-scarfing writers slag one another’s ideas and pitch their own jokes into the wee hours with the aim of overhauling that week’s script by morning. Leopold’s task, in other words, was to manufacture an experience that would combine the worst aspects of medicine, law, and business.

   2006 June 5, Tad Friend, “The Room”, in The New Yorker, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 Mar 2015

   A manta ray or, maybe, a humongous Tostito — in any case, a triangular platform, stepped and undulating, doing for Brooklyn Bridge Park sort of what the Boathouse does for Central Park. Creating a visual anchor for that end of the park as well as for the riverfront, it would become a perch from which to look not just over the harbor but also back at Brooklyn.

   2013 September 17, Michael Kimmelman, “A Step Up for Brooklyn Bridge Park”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 Sep 2013