dish

(dĭsh)

1. a. An open, generally shallow concave container for holding, cooking, or serving food.
   b. dishes The containers and often the utensils used when eating: took out the dishes and silverware; washed the dishes.
   c. A shallow concave container used for purposes other than eating: an evaporating dish.
2. The amount that a dish can hold.
3. a. The food served or contained in a dish: a dish of ice cream.
   b. A particular variety or preparation of food: Sushi is a Japanese dish.
4. a. A depression similar to that in a shallow concave container for food.
   b. The degree of concavity in such a depression.
5. Electronics A dish antenna.
6. Slang A good-looking person, especially an attractive woman.
7. Informal Idle talk; gossip: “plenty of dish about her tattoos, her plastic surgeries, and her ever-younger inamorati” (Louise Kennedy).

1. To serve (food) in or as if in a dish: dished up the stew.
2. To present: dished up an excellent entertainment.
3. To hollow out; make concave.
4. Informal To gossip about.
5. Chiefly British Slang To ruin, foil, or defeat.