spaghetti
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
spaghetti (uncountable)
- A type of pasta made in the shape of long thin strings.
- A dish that has spaghetti as a main part of it, such as spaghetti bolognese.
- (informal) Any type of pasta.
- (informal) Electrical insulating tubing.
- (informal) Anything tangled or confusing.
- (countable) A spaghetti western.
- (informal, programming) Spaghetti code.
- spaghettini
- spaghettoni
- French: spaghettis
- German: Spaghetti, Spagetti
- Italian: spaghetto
- Portuguese: espaguete
- Russian: спаге́тти
- Spanish: espagueti
- French: spaghettis
- Italian: spaghetti
- Russian: спаге́тти
- French: gaine
- German: Isolationsschlauch
spaghetti (spaghettis, present participle spaghettiing; past and past participle spaghettied)
- (intransitive) To become, or appear to become longer and thinner.
- 2006, Richard E. Grant, The Wah-Wah Diaries: The Making of a Film - Page 11 ↗
- "Call it what you will, but as soon as you think you've got your dish ready to serve, it spaghettis all over the place and you have to clean up the mess."
- The cables spaghettied onto the shoulder of the technician.
- 2006, Richard E. Grant, The Wah-Wah Diaries: The Making of a Film - Page 11 ↗
- (transitive) To stretch to become longer and thinner.
- He spaghettied the referee when he landed on him.
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