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gulash

gulash is the alternative spelling of goulash.

Meaning of goulash

Noun

goulash (countable and uncountable, plural goulashes)

  1. A stew of beef or veal and vegetables, flavoured with paprika.
  2. (Midwestern-US) Synonym of American chop suey.
  3. A style of play in which the cards are not thoroughly shuffled between consecutive deals, so as to make the suits less evenly distributed between the players.
  4. A hodgepodge, mishmash
    • While people do not flaunt their preferences, there is also no attempt to hide the facts. One man, who had worked with the collective for three months, could not divide the group by sexuality. "It seems like a goulash of gays, straights, bi's but you can't tell who's who, or what's what."1978 February 4, Eric Rogers, “Men And Child Care”, in Gay Community News, volume 6, number 30, page 9

Forms of gulash

pluralgulashes

Questions about gulash

What is gulash the alternative spelling of?
Gulash is the alternative spelling of goulash.

Words near gulash in the dictionary

  1. gulas
  2. Gulasarian
  3. Gulasarians
  4. gulasch
  5. gulasches
  6. gulash
  7. gulashes
  8. Gulati
  9. Gulatis
  10. Gulbene
  11. Gulbenkian

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