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Meatball

noun, slang

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

    "Meatballs was on the menu for lunch."

  2. 2
    ground meat formed into a ball and fried or simmered in broth wordnet
  3. 3
    A stupid person; a meathead. slang
  4. 4
    An easy pitch to hit, especially thrown right down the middle of the plate.

    "And then. A 98.4 fastball on the inside half of the plate, ring him up, Strike 3, game over. It wasn’t a meatball like Terrence Long watched to finish 2003 ALDS Game 5, but it felt the same."

  5. 5
    An optical landing system.

    "During a pitching deck recovery a pilot must average out the meatball oscillations at the ramp in an attempt to maintain his airplane on the desired glide slope."

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  1. 6
    A menu icon of three horizontal dots.
  2. 7
    Ellipsis of meatball flag. abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis

Etymology

From meat + ball.

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