ketchup
noun
ketch·up ˈke-chəp 
ˈka-
ˈka- variants or less commonly catchup
ˈke-chəp ˈka-
or catsup ˈka- ˈke-chəp ˈka- ˈkat-səp
ˈka- ˈkat-səp : a seasoned pureed condiment usually made from tomatoes
Example Sentences
She put ketchup on her hamburger.
Recent Examples on the Web Soon he's graduated from trains and toilet-paper mummies at home to more ambitious efforts, enlisting his Boy Scout troupe in shoot-'em-up Westerns and dramatic, ketchup-bloody war sagas in the Southwest desert. 
Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 11 Sep. 2022 The little one will eat his chicken with cucumbers because cooked vegetables are very terrible to him unless that vegetable is a fried potato or ketchup. Bon Appétit Contributor, Bon Appétit, 9 Sep. 2022 Barbecue sauce for most of the country is ketchup on steroids, a red sauce with molasses, liquid smoke and all kinds of stuff. Kristine M. Kierzek, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 1 June 2022 Spread the top of the buns with the mayonnaise and ketchup and cover the burger. Tribune News Service, cleveland, 29 Aug. 2022 Ramy is a shaggy, unsure 28-year-old in a baseball cap, rumpled T-shirt and jeans who still hasn’t kicked a childhood habit of smothering whatever’s on his plate with too much ketchup. Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2022 In addition to the MSCHF ketchup line, Rihanna is reportedly still working on her upcoming ninth studio album — set to be her first since 2016's Anti. Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 23 Aug. 2022 Ending your night after one, teetering on the precipice between having a great time and falling asleep, is like eating French fries without ketchup. Ali Francis, Bon Appétit, 18 Aug. 2022 The mechanical arm knew enough to add ketchup after the meat and before the lettuce, but thought the right way to do so was to put the entire bottle inside the burger. Rachel Lerman, Washington Post, 16 Aug. 2022 See More
Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 11 Sep. 2022 The little one will eat his chicken with cucumbers because cooked vegetables are very terrible to him unless that vegetable is a fried potato or ketchup. Bon Appétit Contributor, Bon Appétit, 9 Sep. 2022 Barbecue sauce for most of the country is ketchup on steroids, a red sauce with molasses, liquid smoke and all kinds of stuff. Kristine M. Kierzek, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 1 June 2022 Spread the top of the buns with the mayonnaise and ketchup and cover the burger. Tribune News Service, cleveland, 29 Aug. 2022 Ramy is a shaggy, unsure 28-year-old in a baseball cap, rumpled T-shirt and jeans who still hasn’t kicked a childhood habit of smothering whatever’s on his plate with too much ketchup. Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2022 In addition to the MSCHF ketchup line, Rihanna is reportedly still working on her upcoming ninth studio album — set to be her first since 2016's Anti. Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 23 Aug. 2022 Ending your night after one, teetering on the precipice between having a great time and falling asleep, is like eating French fries without ketchup. Ali Francis, Bon Appétit, 18 Aug. 2022 The mechanical arm knew enough to add ketchup after the meat and before the lettuce, but thought the right way to do so was to put the entire bottle inside the burger. Rachel Lerman, Washington Post, 16 Aug. 2022 See More Word History
Etymology
borrowed, directly or via Malay kecap (phonetically kətʃap) "fish sauce," from Southern Min (Chinese dialects of southeast Fujian) kôe-chiap (Xiamen), kê-chiap (Zhangzhou), from kôe, kê "salted or pickled fish or shellfish" + chiap "juice, sap"
First Known Use
circa 1690, in the meaning defined above
Phrases Containing ketchup
Kids Definition
ketchup
noun
ketch·up ˈke-chəp
ˈka-
variants also catsup
ˈke-chəp,
ˈka-; ˈkat-səp
: a thick seasoned sauce made from tomatoes