- 1[usually plural] food that has not been eaten at the end of a meal
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- 2an object, a custom, or a way of behaving that remains from an earlier time synonym relic He's a leftover from the hippies in the 1960s.
synonym surplus Use any leftover turkey to make soup.See leftover in the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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