Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. Plural form of breadcrumb.
- n. Internet A trail of hyperlinks that lead consecutively to the current page, displayed in the page as a guide and a means of navigating easily to any of the pages in the trail
Etymologies
- Sense 2 comes from the German fairy tale Hansel and Gretel, where Hansel leaves a trail of breadcrumbs to find the way back home when venturing in to the woods. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“If you are unfamiliar with the term breadcrumbs, it refers to the hierarchical display commonly used in site navigation.”
“My mum used to do a dish she called “mock scampi” when I was a kid (basically little chunks of monkfish in breadcrumbs, fried), which I absolutely loved (miles better than real scampi).”
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“A Cook of Live To Cook satisfies snack cravings on a rainy day with some golden brown Sweet Potato Rolls, logs of mashed sweet potato rolled in breadcrumbs and fried to perfection.”
“I decided I would coat the eggplant rounds in breadcrumbs and bake them instead of deep frying them.”
“Nopales can also be cut into strips, batter-dipped and rolled in breadcrumbs, cornmeal or flour, and fried like french fries.”
“Chicken Entrees French Skillet An EFS classic, breast of chicken lightly dusted and seared golden brown, Served topped with a dill-caper chardonnay butter fondue $15.95 Wild Forrest Marsala Golden browned sauté chicken breast in a mushroom and shallot Marsala wine demi glace with a touch of cream $15.95 Boursin Chicken Florentine Breast of chicken filet stuffed with fresh spinach and Boursin cheese, rolled and coated in Japanese breadcrumbs, Crisped brown and oven finished.”
“Murphy, my point is that Black Matrix Publishing is trying to build a business with four magazines and two book lines, and they're doing it by shafting the writers and paying them in breadcrumbs.”
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“Coat both sides of each patty with crumbs, then re-squeeze the patty and recoat it in breadcrumbs.”
“When you are on a page you would like to bookmark, simply press a + button on the top left of the toolbar and the page is automatically included in your bookmark area (called your breadcrumbs).”
“Whenever I've made pasta dishes with breadcrumbs, the crispy crumbs just went limp and mushy in the sauce, I always thought I was doing something wrong, but I recently learned from Amanda that this is actually the way the dish is supposed to be, the breadcrumbs were a way for poor people to bulk-up the dish.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘breadcrumbs’.
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Found in keyboard
nail clippings, rice, paperclip fragment, biscuit crumbs, breadcrumbs, meat, earwax, snot, tears, staple, hair, eraser crumbles and 12 more...
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Pluralia Tantum
Nouns that are common in plural form but are non-existent or rarely used in singular form.
scissors, thanks, clothes, remains, tights, trousers, pants, news, billiards, means, mathematics, physics and 221 more...
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Words Covered in Faery Dust (B)
words that evoke magic, mystery, mayhem, magnificence or anything else that glimmers in the grass
balcony, bailey, baguette, bairn, balalaika, baldric, balefire, baby's breath, ballet, balm of gilead, balsam, baluster and 188 more...
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B is for Blue Canary
My B Words
bugbear, bette davis eyes, backstroke, barney, babushka, babycakes, backscratcher, bad news bears, balderdash, ballyhoo, baloney, bamboozle and 150 more...
Tweets
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treeseed Breadcrumbs: The strewing of which is an ineffective way of marking one's path home. Just ask Hansel and Gretel. Jan 30, 2008