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meatballs

meatballs is the plural of meatball.

Meaning of meatball

Noun

meatball (plural meatballs)

  1. A ball of minced or ground meat, seasoned and cooked.
    • Meatballs were on the menu for lunch.
  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.

Phrases with meatballs

Questions about meatballs

What is meatballs the plural of?
Meatballs is the plural of meatball.

Words near meatballs in the dictionary

  1. meatball
  2. meatball flag
  3. meatball flags
  4. meatball surgeries
  5. meatball surgery
  6. meatballs
  7. meatbally
  8. meatborne
  9. meatbot
  10. meatbots
  11. meatbrain

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