spaghetti

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spa·ghet·ti / spəˈgetē/ • n. pasta made in long, slender, solid strings. ∎  an Italian dish consisting largely of this, typically with a sauce. ∎ fig. a tangle of stringlike objects, resembling a plate of cooked spaghetti: a clumsy spaghetti of coils and wires. ∎  Electr. a type of narrow tubing that encases and insulates wire.ORIGIN: Italian, plural of the diminutive of spago ‘string.’

spaghetti

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spaghetti spaghetti junction a complex multi-level road junction, especially one on a motorway, and originally applied to a major interchange on the M6 near Birmingham in the UK.
spaghetti western informal term for a western film made cheaply in Europe by an Italian director.

spaghetti

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spaghetti See pasta.

spaghetti

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