EGAVE

spaghetti

About 0.94 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun A type of pasta made in the shape of long thin strings.
    Her mother was cooking spaghetti for dinner.
  2. noun A dish that has spaghetti (noun 1 sense 1) as a main part of it, such as spaghetti bolognese.
  3. noun Denoting Italianness. An Italian person.
  4. noun An Italian person.
  5. noun 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”).
  6. noun Something physically resembling spaghetti (noun 1 sense 1) in appearance or consistency, or in being tangled.
    spaghetti grid spaghetti junction spaghetti limbs spaghetti strap spaghetti stripes
  7. noun Electrical insulating tubing or electrical wiring.
  8. noun Roads forming a complex junction, especially one with multiple levels on a motorway.

Similar words

marinara wild overcooked squash sandwiches spaghettini pasta spaghettoni noodle spirali

Often followed by

and sauce with in or squash westerns straps is

Word family

spaghettilike spaghettis

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