Definitions

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  • adjective Resembling spaghetti; entangled or confused.

Etymologies

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spaghetti +‎ -like

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Examples

  • Of course, he still made mistakes: one day he peeled a dozen lemons as instructed, only to discover that the skins were supposed to be sliced into long, spaghettilike threads, rather than the short, irregular strips he had cut.

    The Sorcerer’s Apprentices Lisa Abend 2011

  • Of course, he still made mistakes: one day he peeled a dozen lemons as instructed, only to discover that the skins were supposed to be sliced into long, spaghettilike threads, rather than the short, irregular strips he had cut.

    The Sorcerer’s Apprentices Lisa Abend 2011

  • Obviously, the decentralizing nature of the computer poses a threat to dictators, who have to choose between keeping their countries in the digital dark ages (and suffering dire economic consequences) or liberating a technology that might dangerously open up the entire society But the same dynamic confounds managers everywhere, as computers and networks amplify the powers of individuals and twist the corporate organizational charts into spaghettilike tangles.

    Technomania 2008

  • While this is happening, what appeared at first to be a spaghettilike jumble of the ninety-two chromatin strands condenses into chromosomes that upon close examination are actually twenty-three pairs of pairs, that is forty-six pairs or ninety-two chromosomes in all.

    THE HIDDEN FACE OF GOD GERALD L. SCHROEDER 2001

  • While this is happening, what appeared at first to be a spaghettilike jumble of the ninety-two chromatin strands condenses into chromosomes that upon close examination are actually twenty-three pairs of pairs, that is forty-six pairs or ninety-two chromosomes in all.

    THE HIDDEN FACE OF GOD GERALD L. SCHROEDER 2001

  • It owes its name to the stringy texture of its flesh which, when cooked, turns into spaghettilike strands.

    Make It Easy Make It Light Laurie Burrows Grad 1987

  • Spaghetti squash, also known as diet spaghetti, is a large oval-shaped vegetable that owes its name to the stringy texture of its flesh which, when cooked, turns into spaghettilike strands.

    Make It Easy Make It Light Laurie Burrows Grad 1987

  • It owes its name to the stringy texture of its flesh which, when cooked, turns into spaghettilike strands.

    Make It Easy Make It Light Laurie Burrows Grad 1987

  • It owes its name to the stringy texture of its flesh which, when cooked, turns into spaghettilike strands.

    Make It Easy Make It Light Laurie Burrows Grad 1987

  • Spaghetti squash, also known as diet spaghetti, is a large oval-shaped vegetable that owes its name to the stringy texture of its flesh which, when cooked, turns into spaghettilike strands.

    Make It Easy Make It Light Laurie Burrows Grad 1987

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