spaghetti

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You'd have a plate of spaghetti, and you would pour it on, right?

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  1. noun Pasta in long, often thick strands.
  2. noun Electricity A slender tube of insulating material that covers bare wire.

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  • You'd have a plate of spaghetti, and you would pour it on, right? —  Malcolm Gladwell on spaghetti sauce
  • The breath of wartime Poland passing over the damaged tissues—that nerve-spaghetti, as he thought of it Buses were bearable, subways were killing. —  Mr. Sammler's Planet
  • All my clothes were pretty much the same Dinner was startlingly normal: salad and spaghetti, and for dessert a cupcake with a birthday candle stuck in the middle. —  Analog, April 2002
  • You and I know it's some kind of meteorological phenomenon, but Roger swears it's interplanetary, and Mildred acts as if she's on first-name terms with the crews The salad was crisp, the garlic bread was crusty, and the spaghetti was al dente. —  Braun_lilian_Jackson_09_The_Cat_Who_went_Underground
  • Every one of them would take all of us and snap us like spaghetti, and they're the extras. —  UGO.com - UnderGroundOnline
 

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  1. Italian, pl. diminutive of spago, cord.

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  1. Italian, plural of spaghetto, diminutive of spago, a small cord.
 

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/spæˈgɛtti/
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