Tupperware - Wiktionary, the free dictionary (2024)

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From Tupper +‎ -ware. Named after American businessman Earl Tupper(1907–1983), who invented the product in 1942 and founded the company that produced it. Thus it is a genericised trademark.

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Tupperware (countable and uncountable, plural Tupperware or Tupperwares)

  1. A food-storage container (often plastic), or a set of such containers.
    Synonyms: plastic container, food container

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