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neatball

neatball noun: a vegetarian food made from grains, legumes, or vegetables, meant as a substitute for meatballs.

neatball: a vegetarian food made from grains, legumes, or vegetables, meant as a substitute for meatballs
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Noun

neatball (plural neatballs)

  1. A vegetarian food made from grains, legumes, or vegetables, meant as a substitute for meatballs.
    • Cook 125g spaghetti for each serving and serve with meatless "neatball" sauce, sprinkled with parmesan and shredded fresh basil.2006, Pamela Clark, chapter 5, in Vegie Food: Low-fat & Delicious, The Australian Women's Weekly, page 100
    • Then come the neatballs ($3), nuts and seeds packed into a sphere, made to resemble meatballs.2009 March 28, Corey Mintz, “Hard to be rah-rah about all raw”, in Toronto Star

neatball meaning in Bengali

neatball in Bengali

শস্য

Forms of neatball

pluralneatballs

Origin of neatball

Blend of not + meatball, or in some cases, nut + meatball.

Questions about neatball

What does neatball mean?
Neatball means a vegetarian food made from grains, legumes, or vegetables, meant as a substitute for meatballs.
What is neatball in Bengali?
Neatball in Bengali is শস্য. See Neatball meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is neatball?
Neatball is a noun.
What is the plural of neatball?
The plural of neatball is neatballs.

Words near neatball in the dictionary

  1. neat-handed
  2. neat-handedly
  3. neat-handedness
  4. neat-house
  5. neat-houses
  6. neatball
  7. neatballs
  8. neatbeast
  9. neatbeasts
  10. neaten
  11. neatened

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Adapted from Wiktionary: neatball (page history and authors); neatball (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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