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Definition of meatball
: a small ball of chopped or ground meat often mixed with bread crumbs and spices
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Recent Examples of meatball from the Web
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The restaurant serves excellent Italian wines, and specialties like freshly made tagliatelle dressed in pesto and potatoes, and meatballs stuffed with polenta, mozzarella, and spicy tomato sauce.
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An oven-baked hoagies line-up includes a Caprese, meatball and Reuben.
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So far, the company has come up with several recipes, including ravioli with Swedish meatballs (um, yum), salmon with lemon and herbs and shrimp with tomatoes and olives.
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Even if the food in question is spaghetti and meatballs.
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The Social Hour menu (4 to 6 p.m. Monday-Friday) offers affordable small plates, including the infamous Mini Tower of Tuna ($8), steak tartare ($8), spicy prime beef meatballs ($7) and more.
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Menu highlights include summer blossom pasta, Catalina offshore fresh catch and lamb meatballs.
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The Tortugas menu features 10- and 12-inched stuffed, deep-dish pizzas with such ingredients as Italian sausage, pepperoni, bacon, chicken, meatballs, anchovies, olives, pineapple, spinach, bell peppers, jalapenos, mushrooms and onions.
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It was later learned the meatballs, were contaminated with nails, investigators said.
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First Known Use of meatball
1856
MEATBALL Defined for English Language Learners
meatball
playDefinition of meatball for English Language Learners
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: a small ball of chopped or ground meat
MEATBALL Defined for Kids
meatball
playDefinition of meatball for Students
: a small round lump of chopped or ground meat
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