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TV dinner

noun

Etymology

Originally used for a brand of packaged meal (TV Brand Frozen Dinner) developed in 1953 for Swanson & Sons.

Definitions

  1. A prepackaged meal purchased frozen and heated at home.

    • Like foil-tray frozen meals, which were used by airlines before Swanson branded them as “TV dinners,” Twitter was not initially invented to be an adjunct to the tube.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA