Sekirov Dictionary

spaghetti

/spəˈɡɛti/

noun10

  1. A type of pasta made in the shape of long thin strings.
  2. A dish that has spaghetti (noun 1 sense 1) as a main part of it, such as spaghetti bolognese.
  3. [before a noun] (informal) Something physically resembling spaghetti (noun 1 sense 1) in appearance or consistency, or in being tangled.
  4. [before a noun] (informal) Electrical insulating tubing or electrical wiring.
  5. [before a noun] (informal) Roads forming a complex junction, especially one with multiple levels on a motorway.
  6. [before a noun] (informal) Disorderly strands of filament, caused by an error during the printing process.
  7. (informal, figurative) Something confusing or intricate.
  8. (disapproving, figurative) Ellipsis of spaghetti code (“unstructured or poorly structured program source code, especially code with many GOTO statements or their equivalent”).
  9. 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”).
  10. (informal, offensive) An Italian person.

verb6

  1. (informal) To cause (something) to become tangled.
  2. (informal) To become tangled.
  3. (informal) To cause (someone or something) to become, or appear to become, longer and thinner; to stretch.
  4. (informal) To become, or appear to become, longer and thinner.
  5. (informal, humorous) To eat spaghetti (noun noun 1 sense 1).
  6. (informal, humorous) To serve (someone) spaghetti (noun noun 1 sense 1).
forms

spaghettied · spaghettiing · spaghettis

Phrases with spaghetti

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