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meatball

noun

Etymology

From meat + ball.

  1. derived from *bʰel-✻
  2. derived from *bʰélō✻
  3. inherited from *balluz✻
  4. derived from bǫllr
  5. inherited from *beall✻
  6. inherited from bal
  7. compounded as meatball — “meat + ball”

Definitions

  1. A ball of minced or ground meat, seasoned and cooked.

    • Meatballs was on the menu for lunch.
    • 1996: Mrs. Miracle. Debbie Macomber. Pg. 101. I prefer spaghetti with meatballs instead the meat all crumbled in with the sauce.

  2. A stupid person

    A stupid person; a meathead.

  3. An easy pitch to hit, especially thrown right down the middle of the plate.

    • And then. A 98.4 fastball on the inside half of the plate, ring him up, Strike 3, game over. It wasn’t a meatball like Terrence Long watched to finish 2003 ALDS Game 5, but it felt the same.
  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. An optical landing system.

      • During a pitching deck recovery a pilot must average out the meatball oscillations at the ramp in an attempt to maintain his airplane on the desired glide slope.

    2. A menu icon of three horizontal dots.

    3. Ellipsis of meatball flag.

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Derived

beetball, meatball flag, meatball surgery, meatbally, neatball

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for meatball. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA