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"small potatoes" Definition

  1. a term of contempt. “He’s very SMALL POTATOES,” he’s a nobody. Yet no one thinks of calling an important personage “large POTATOES.”

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Position in the dictionary: 3247 of 4022 slang words.
Next words in the dictionary: small-beer;, smalls, smash, smash-man-geordie, smasher, smashfeeder, smeller, smish, smithers, smock-face
Previous words in the dictionary: small hours, smack smooth, sluter, slushy, slush, slumming, slumgullion, slum the gorger, slum, sluicing one’s bolt

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