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fruit cocktail

British  

noun

  1. fruit salad consisting of small or diced fruits

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Other items that contain red dye No. 3: Del Monte fruit cocktail, Signature Select Jordan almonds, Betty Crocker Suddenly! pasta salad, and Jack Links beef stick and cheese.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 15, 2025

I have this weird thing where I don't love maraschino cherries, and I don't love the texture of the canned pears in a fruit cocktail.

From Salon • Mar. 7, 2023

Then there are its tiny organs, which seem to float within this clear flesh, like a pale fruit cocktail in the weirdest Jell-O salad ever to grace a tree branch.

From New York Times • Dec. 22, 2022

A cut-glass serving bowl filled with a combination of canned fruit cocktail augmented with fresh bananas and oranges always graced the table to begin the meal, Boyd said.

From Washington Post • Nov. 18, 2022

She found a can of fruit cocktail and spooned it into three dishes.

From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez

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