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.

Examples of "spaghetti" in Sentences

This is what we referred to as our spaghetti models.
In English, the term spaghetti evokes a particular shape of long noodle.
SCHNEIDER: Mike, we're showing right now what we call our spaghetti map.
We've laid down what we call our spaghetti map where all our different computer models.
Computer models, what we call spaghetti models, could move across the northern coast of Cuba.
In fact, take a look at this, just very quickly, this is what we refer to as our spaghetti model.
These are what we call spaghetti model forecasts, just because they look like a bunch of strings of spaghetti, don't they?
This kind of falls in the center of what we see, some of those what we call the spaghetti models, the computer-generated models.
This is what we call the spaghetti model charts, and each individual line here is a different computer model out putting a forecast for you, and see how they all line up.
He then turned on his tape, listening to Beethoven's joyous Seventh, but remembering how Claggett had objected to what he called spaghetti music, he found it distasteful.