leftover

Universal Words noun 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.