meatball

Noun

meatball (plural meatballs)

1. A ball of minced or ground meat, seasoned and cooked.
   • Meatballs were on the menu for lunch.
   • Meatballs may contain ground meat mixed with seasonings, breadcrumbs, mashed potatoes, rice, and liquid. The meat mixture is often shaped, browned. and simmered in a sauce for 30 to 45 minutes over low heat or in a 350° F. oven. During cooking the meat is basted with the sauce occasionally....1894, Yearbook of Agriculture
2. (slang) A stupid person; a meathead.
3. 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.2020, Alex Hall, “Oakland A’s faced all their nightmares in Game 3 and wrote a new ending”, in Athletics Nation
4. 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.1961, Approach, volume 7
5. A menu icon of three horizontal dots.