bretzel

Noun

pretzel (plural pretzels)

1. A toasted bread or cracker usually in the shape of a loose knot.
   • When I was young, the best Philadelphia could do in the way of combining music and eating—or principally drinking—was at the Mäennerchor Garden at Ninth and Green, where a pretzel might be had with a glass of beer, or a sherry cobbler1914, Elizabeth Robins Pennell, Our Philadelphia, Chapter 19
2. (broadly, figuratively) Anything that is knotted, twisted, or tangled.
   • he drew himself up into a regular pretzel of a boy1901, Alice Hegan Rice, Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch/Chapter 6, Chapter 6

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