spaghetti

IPA: spʌgˈɛti

noun

  • (countable, uncountable) A type of pasta made in the shape of long thin strings.
  • (by extension, countable, uncountable) A dish that has spaghetti (sense 1) as a main part of it, such as spaghetti bolognese.
  • (by extension, countable) Denoting Italianness.
  • (derogatory, informal) An Italian person.
  • (by extension, uncountable, informal, often attributively) Something physically resembling spaghetti (sense 1) in appearance or consistency, or in being tangled.
  • (electrical engineering) Electrical insulating tubing or electrical wiring.
  • (road transport) Roads forming a complex junction, especially one with multiple levels on a motorway.
  • (uncountable, figuratively, informal) Something confusing or intricate.
  • (film) Ellipsis of spaghetti western (“a motion picture depicting a story of cowboys and desperadoes set in the American Old West, but produced by an Italian-based company and filmed in Europe, notably in Italy”). [(film) A motion picture depicting a story of cowboys and desperadoes set in the American Old West, but produced by an Italian-based company and filmed in Europe, notably in Italy.]
  • (programming, derogatory, informal) Ellipsis of spaghetti code (“unstructured or poorly structured program source code, especially code with many GOTO statements or their equivalent”). [(programming, derogatory, informal) Unstructured or poorly structured program source code; especially code with many GOTO statements or their equivalent.]

verb

  • (transitive)
  • (humorous) To serve (someone) spaghetti (noun sense 1).
  • To cause (someone or something) to become, or appear to become, longer and thinner; to stretch.
  • To cause (something) to become tangled.
  • (intransitive)
  • (humorous) To eat spaghetti (noun sense 1).
  • To become, or appear to become, longer and thinner.
  • To become tangled.
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Examples of "spaghetti" in Sentences

  • I slurp up spaghetti.
  • I used recipe to cook spaghetti.
  • I tamped a piece of garlic in my spaghetti.
  • I was in the attempts to clean my spaghetti.
  • The pictures of the spaghetti made me laugh.
  • He also makes the best Spaghetti in the world.
  • In the process, her spaghetti dish crashes to the floor.
  • Kim glances down at the plate of spaghetti on the floor.
  • The last structure is called the schizo, or the spaghetti model.
  • He is in fact the bane of the Flying Spaghetti Monster's existance.

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