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.
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.
- This is what we referred to as our spaghetti models.
- 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.
- 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.