1 [usuallypl.] food that has not been eaten at the end of a meal:
Everyone was hungry so there were no leftovers.
2 an object, a custom or a way of behaving that remains from an earlier time:
He's a leftover from the hippies in the 1960s.
leftover adjective [onlybeforenoun]:
Use any leftover meat to make a curry.
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