A potato is a vegetable that grows underground. People often eat it boiled, fried, or baked.
I like to eat boiled potato.
She cooked potatoes for dinner.
Potatoes are a type of tuber. Tubers are thick parts of a plant under the ground that store food.
Farmers harvest potatoes in autumn.
The farmers planted seed potatoes early.
The word potato is used in a funny way to mean someone who sits a lot and does nothing active, like watching TV.
He is a potato and watches TV all day.
Don't be a potato; go outside and play.
People use 'potato' in a funny way to talk about old or slow machines, like computers or phones that do not work well.
My old computer is a potato now.
This phone is such a potato; it is very slow.
People jokingly call bad or blurry photos 'potatoes' because they look unclear or low quality.
That picture is a potato; it is blurry.
He took a potato photo by mistake.
As a verb, 'to potato' means to cook potatoes, often by boiling or baking. It is informal and rarely used.
I will potato some dinner tonight.
She potatoed the food for the party.
