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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A taste persisting in the mouth after the substance that caused it is no longer present.
  2. n. A feeling that remains after an event or experience, especially one that was unpleasant.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A gustatory sensation which persists after the stimulus that originally excited it has ceased to act.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A taste of something that persists when it is no longer present.
  2. n. The persistence of the taste of something no longer present.
  3. n. Of wine, finish.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A taste which remains in the mouth after eating or drinking.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. an afterimage of a taste

Etymologies

  1. From after + taste (Wiktionary)

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  • Prolagus Is the chemical aftertaste the reason why people eat hot dogs, or is it some kind of bonus?
    (Neil Gaiman) Mar 13, 2008

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