TV dinner
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TV dinner (plural TV dinners)
A prepackaged meal purchased frozen and heated at home.
Synonyms: frozen dinner, microwave meal, ready meal
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It's like the code of living by yourself. People who are single know what I'm talking about. You eat standing up, reading the paper. Or you say to yourself, this isn't even cutting it, I'm taking a TV dinner and I'm getting in bed here.
Add some golden corn with butter sauce and an apple crisp and you got yourself a $50 TV dinner.
Other tales feature food-related themes less centrally -- offers, for example, "Murder for Lunch" and, story "For the Common Good," opens with the sentence: "I first met Dr. Randall McQuirter in 1965 over a kosher TV dinner" (p. 233).
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