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leftover

2 noun
     
leftover2
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leftovers

[plural]DF food that has not been eaten at the end of a meal:
Give the leftovers to the dog.
2 [singular] something from an earlier time that still remains, even though it is not really useful or important any more [= hangover]
leftover from
The headmaster was a leftover from the Victorian era.
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