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ketchup

Noun A1 – Beginner

A thick, sweet and tangy red sauce made mainly from tomatoes.

"He put ketchup on his fries before eating them."

The word likely traces back to a Hokkien Chinese term for a fermented sauce, long before it came to mean a tomato condiment.