sugar beet

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sugar beet (plural sugar beets)

  1. A type of beet whose root contains a high concentration of sucrose.
    • 1953 February, “Notes and News: Locomotive Notes: Scottish Region”, in Railway Magazine, page 141:
      It was heading a freight train, loaded mainly with sugar beet, en route from the country area of Angus to the beet factory at Cupar (Fife).
  2. Darling; sweetheart
    • 1996, Jack Barth, “A Fish Called Selma”, in The Simpsons, spoken by Troy McClure (Phil Hartman):
      I just want to say I wouldn't be here without the support of a very special lady- my always outrageous fiancée, Selma. Take a bow, sugar beet.
    • 2016, Marianne Evans, Woodland Hearts:
      “So is my sugar beet all tucked in?”
      “She is. Happily exhausted, too. Just like me.”

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