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Tupperware
[tuhp-er-wair]
a brand name for plastic containers, used especially for food preparation and storage.
Tupperware
/ ˈʌəɱə /
noun
a range of plastic containers used for storing food
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of Tupperware1
Example Sentences
I’ve filled my kitchen with Pyrex instead of Tupperware.
“She was really like my nonna. She was twenty years older than my mom and basically helped raise me. Her lasagna took three days to make. Literally. You’d hear these specific Tupperware containers coming out of the closet and think, ‘Oh my God, it’s lasagna.’
Andrew Kim, a lab manager at Sunflower Star Lab, a nonprofit that leads research and conservation to recover the species, tilted his computer screen on a Zoom call to show dozens of young stars housed individually — due to rampant cannibalism — in what looked like plastic Tupperware.
Together, we mopped the floors, emptied the cabinets of half-eaten bags of pasta and threw away Tupperware with missing tops.
Meera Syal's performance in A Tupperware of Ashes was greeted with rave reviews, so it is no surprise she was nominated for Best Actress at this years awards.
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