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PoTayoTo

When you a bum ass that chooses to sleep on a nasty ass couch when you got a nice bed right next door.
Anthony: Man get your ass off that couch!
Mike: You right I don’t want to be a fucking PoTayoTo!
by fastbacks February 7, 2018
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potayto tomahto

Pronunciation:
/póteɪtoʊ təˈmɑ təʊ/

Definitions:
1. (idiomatic) Used to suggest that two apparently similar things are actually different from each other.

2. (idiomatic) Used to admit that there is a distinction between two close things when the speaker previously maintained there was no distinction.

Etymology:
Uses American English and British English pronunciations of the words potato and tomato. Adaptation of the interchangeable sayings, “potato potahto” and “tomayto tomahto.” Parodied allusion to George Gershwin's song "Let's Call the Whole Thing Off": "You like tomatoes (/təˈmeɪtoʊz/) and I like tomatoes (/təˈmɑ toʊz/)".

Synonyms:
tomayto potahto

Antonyms:
potayto potahto, tomayto tomahto, same difference
1. “What was in that burrito?”
Aluminum foil
“Wait... I asked what was ‘in’ it, not what was ‘on’ it.”
“Potayto tomahto
by Clinton Brink November 1, 2017
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Potatotomato

Hey! He's protecting in diep, hes a potatotomato
by Wash [HC] November 29, 2020
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potatotope

Any of the various permutations of potatoes enjoyed by many modern and ancient civilizations such as gnocchi, latkes, mashed potatoes and of course vodka.
5/18/2022
KELSEY
| What's your favorite form of potato
ME
| Gnocchi
KELSEY
| I'm not sure I've ever heard that
ME
| Lolol
| What's yours
KELSEY
| Mashed! It's my comfort food
ME
| Another excellent potatotope
KELSEY
| I'm calling them potatotopes forever 😂
ME
| Potatotope
KELSEY
| Potatotopatope
| We should edit the English language
ME
| We just did

| You can't uninvent a word
| I'm gonna make an urban dictionary entry for it so it will

| be forever enshrined in the annals of the internet
by chern0byl May 18, 2022
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