spaghettiing

Verb

spaghetti (third-person singular simple present spaghettis, present participle spaghettiing, simple past and past participle spaghettied)

1. (humorous, informal, transitive) To serve (someone) spaghetti (noun noun 1 sense 1).
   • Visiting members expected to attend, and all will be properly spaghettied.1940 January 19, “Local and General Items”, in The Blairmore Enterprise, volume XXXI, number 3, Blairmore, Alta.: W. J. Bartlett, →OCLC, page 8, column 3
2. (informal, transitive) To cause (someone or something) to become, or appear to become, longer and thinner; to stretch.
   • He spaghettied the referee when he landed on him.
3. (informal, transitive) To cause (something) to become tangled.
   • All these are spaghettied together, as the following boxscore will show: […]1914 March 7, “Bill” [pseudonym], “The Lame Duck: Views of an Innocent Bystander”, in The Saturday Evening Post, volume 186, number 56, Philadelphia, Pa.; London: Curtis Publishing Company, →ISSN...
4. (humorous, informal, intransitive) To eat spaghetti (noun noun 1 sense 1).
   • I have "spaghettied" from Ventimiglia to Brindisi and I doubt if I have ever eaten as excellent spaghetti, certainly none better nor richer, than I have enjoyed in the home of a very charming Maryland hostess.1932, “Foreword”, in Frederick Philip Steiff, compiler, Eat, Drink & Be Merry in Maryland: An Anthology from a Great Tradition, New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam’s Sons, →OCLC, page xvii
5. (informal, intransitive) To become, or appear to become, longer and thinner.
   • The oldest Lark spaghettied down to a noodle and slithered through the letterbox-like hole at the bottom of the cistern.2022 August 30, Thomas Sanders, Samuel Sanders, “Little K, Fire ’Er Up!”, in The Companionship in A Case of OCD, [United Kingdom]: Sanders Sound & Picture, page 361
6. (informal, intransitive) To become tangled.
   • The cables spaghettied onto the shoulder of the technician.

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