TV dinner
nounEtymology Originally used for a brand of packaged meal (TV Brand Frozen Dinner) developed in 1953 for Swanson & Sons.
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A prepackaged meal purchased frozen and heated at home.
- Like foil-tray frozen meals, which were used by airlines before Swanson branded them as “TV dinners,” Twitter was not initially invented to be an adjunct to the tube.2023 July 10, James Poniewozik, “The Twitter Watch Party Is Over”, in The New York Times: