(a) stick of margarine

(a) stick of margarine
a stick of butter/margarine/american phrase
a long thin piece of butter or margarine that you buy from a shop
Thesaurus: amounts and pieces of foodhyponym types of food or drinkhypernym
Main entry: stick

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