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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A small cake of minced food, such as poultry, vegetables, or fish, that is usually coated with bread crumbs and fried in deep fat.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A mass of finely minced and seasoned meat or fish (or rice, potato, etc.) made into a small ball or other regular form, and fried crisp and brown.

Wiktionary

  1. n. Minced, cooked, food (usually meat or vegetables), which is fried in deep fat and sometimes sprinkled with bread crumbs.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Cookery) A ball of minced meat, fowl, rice, vegetables, or other ingredients, often in a thick white sauce, highly seasoned, breaded, and fried.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. minced cooked meats (or vegetables) in thick white sauce; breaded and deep-fried

Etymologies

  1. From French croquer ("to crunch"). (Wiktionary)
  2. French, from croquer, to crunch. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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