English Explanatory Dictionary

deflavorizing machine

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An imaginary device which removes the flavor from something, particularly food.

Word forms

deflavorizing machine deflavorizing machines

Etymology

Coined by Woody Allen in the 1980 film Stardust Memories. : Sandy Bates: It's funny, because in my family nobody ever committed suicide, nobody... this was just not a middle-class alternative, you know? I — my mother was too busy running the boiled chicken through the deflavorizing machine to think about shooting herself or anything.

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