spaghetti

A type of pasta made in the shape of long thin strings.

Her mother was cooking spaghetti for dinner.

Maccheroni, or Spaghetti, a smaller kind of macaroni, sufficient for the dinner of an ordinary mortal, generally follows the soup. It is as a rule served up with tomato sauce, and Parmesan cheese thickly scattered over it.

A type of pasta made in the shape of long thin strings.

Denoting Italianness.

Denoting Italianness.

Something physically resembling spaghetti (noun 1 sense 1) in appearance or consistency, or in being tangled.

spaghetti grid    spaghetti junction    spaghetti limbs    spaghetti strap    spaghetti stripes

Or how about that spaghetti of cables, adaptors and plugs you keep in a box somewhere, the detritus of old phones, laptops and tablets — each with a different charging point — is that not an example of staggeringly wasteful, bad design?

To serve (someone) spaghetti (noun noun 1 sense 1).

Visiting members expected to attend, and all will be properly spaghettied.

Pi Phis spaghettied their mothers and fathers last Saturday evening in the rooms.

To cause (someone or something) to become, or appear to become, longer and thinner; to stretch.

He spaghettied the referee when he landed on him.

To cause (something) to become tangled.

All these are spaghettied together, as the following boxscore will show: […]

"What makes you think this watercolorist and I would develop a romantic relationship?" Sissy's brow was spaghettied.

To eat spaghetti (noun noun 1 sense 1).

I have "spaghettied" from Ventimiglia to Brindisi and I doubt if I have ever eaten as excellent spaghetti, certainly none better nor richer, than I have enjoyed in the home of a very charming Maryland hostess.

To become, or appear to become, longer and thinner.

The oldest Lark spaghettied down to a noodle and slithered through the letterbox-like hole at the bottom of the cistern.