Meaning

5 senses
  1. A ball of minced or ground meat, seasoned and cooked.

    Meatballs were on the menu for lunch.

    1996: Mrs. Miracle. Debbie Macomber. Pg. 101. I prefer spaghetti with meatballs instead the meat all crumbled in with the sauce.

    Fleischklößchen, Fleischbällchen, Frikadelle

    фрикаде́лькаfrikadɛ́lʹka, тефте́лькаteftélʹka, тефтелиtefteli

    тюфтелькиtjuftelʹky

    ground meat formed into a ball and fried or simmered in broth

  2. (slang)A stupid person; a meathead.

  3. An easy pitch to hit, especially thrown right down the middle of the plate.

  4. An optical landing system.

  5. A menu icon of three horizontal dots.

Examples

42 sentences
  1. My grandma was really good at making meatballs.

  2. Did you like the meatballs?

  3. Who wants meatballs?

    ruКто хочет тефтелей? — Balamax

  4. Tom likes meatballs.

    ruТом любит тефтели. — Balamax

  5. I want five meatballs.

    Я хочу п'ять фрикадельок. — deniko

    ruЯ хочу пять фрикаделек. — Balamax

    deIch möchte fünf Fleischbällchen. — freddy1

Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
ball of minced or ground meat:
Русский
By meaning 1
ball of minced or ground meat:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
ball of minced or ground meat:

Origin

From meat + ball.

From meat + ball.

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