Tupperware{™}

Tupperware{™}
n [U]
a make of plastic containers for storing food in, widely used in Britain. When it was first introduced in the 1960s, the company paid people to hold Tupperware parties in their homes, to which they invited friends and offered to sell them Tupperware goods. Tupperware is now sold in many shops.

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