spaghetti

IPA: spʌgˈɛti

(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.]

(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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