Tupperware
A food-storage container (often plastic), or a set of such containers.
Noun
- A food-storage container (often plastic), or a set of such containers.
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:Tupperware.
Synonyms: plastic container food container
Origin
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.