shoestring potatoes
Americanplural noun
Etymology
Origin of shoestring potatoes
An Americanism dating back to 1930–35
Example Sentences
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I’d stick instead to the fluke sautéed in browned butter and thyme, with a side of shoestring potatoes that seem out of place but are so good nobody is likely to complain.
From New York Times • Mar. 15, 2022
My local specialty market has a truffle ketchup that offers a tasty, if a little cloying, play on truffle fries when drizzled over some shoestring potatoes.
From Salon • Feb. 21, 2021
Agora has its thumb-size lamb sausages, garnished with shoestring potatoes, made to its specifications by a butcher.
From Washington Post • Oct. 22, 2019
A Cuban burger, it is traditionally topped with a special sauce and shoestring potatoes.
From New York Times • Oct. 30, 2014
"Look here," Tommy suggested, "you go right on cooking ham and warming up those shoestring potatoes, and I'll sneak over the ridge and bring back about fifty pounds of bear."
From Boy Scouts on the Great Divide or, The Ending of the Trail by Fletcher, Archibald Lee
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