french fried potato

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french fried potato

  1. singular of french fried potatoes
    • 1952, Perspective, page 175:
      [] his moustache was like a french fried potato in size and shape; []
    • 1979, TriQuarterly, page 117:
      In one of his delicate monkey fists he clutched a french fried potato, in the other a rubbery red Penrose hot sausage.
    • 2006 January 9, “Testimony of Charles Fried; Senate Judiciary Committee; The Confirmation of Judge Samuel Alito as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States”, in Confirmation Hearing on the Nomination of Samuel A. Alito, Jr. to Be an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States: Hearing Before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, One Hundred Ninth Congress, Second Session, Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, page 1035:
      This case seems to me no more momentous than Judge Roberts’s (as he then was) decision declining to find unconstitutional the arrest of a young girl caught eating a french fried potato in a Washington subway station.