sausage
minced pork, beef, or other meats, often combined, together with various added ingredients and seasonings, usually stuffed into a prepared intestine or other casing and often made in links.
Aeronautics. a sausage-shaped observation balloon, formerly used in warfare.
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Origin of sausage
1Other words from sausage
- sau·sage·like, adjective
Words Nearby sausage
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How to use sausage in a sentence
You can find grilled dishes like chorizo sausages and steak, topped with traditional chimichurri sauce.
Because the sausages were already safely cooked through in the pot, all you’re looking for is a browned, crispy exterior.
A Family-Friendly Camp Meal That Everyone Can Help With | Wes Siler | October 1, 2020 | Outside OnlineHand one to each person, so they can cook their own sausage themselves.
A Family-Friendly Camp Meal That Everyone Can Help With | Wes Siler | October 1, 2020 | Outside OnlineCarefully insert the sharpened end of a stick into one end of a sausage until it is securely impaled.
A Family-Friendly Camp Meal That Everyone Can Help With | Wes Siler | October 1, 2020 | Outside OnlineI was a vegetarian at the time so no sausage or bacon, but those were there, too.
Fast-Food Buffets Are a Thing of the Past. Some Doubt They Ever Even Existed. | MM Carrigan | September 29, 2020 | Eater
Sage and sausage patty came next, served between cumin scented Buttermilk biscuits and smothered in a black pepper country gravy.
Dinner at Nitehawk Cinema: ‘Christmas Vacation’ and a Beer in a Pear Tree | Rich Goldstein | December 12, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTLynchburg is a six-month-old German sausage and ale house in the heart of Panama's San Francisco neighborhood.
House of the Witch: The Renegade Craft Brewers of Panama | Jeff Campagna | November 30, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTPoke center of Italian sausages with chopstick to make well, fill with chocolate syrup and twist the open end of the sausage.
Epic Meal Empire’s Meat Monstrosities: From the Bacon Spider to the Cinnabattleship | Harley Morenstein | July 26, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTNestlé, the Swiss owner of sausage-making subsidiary Herta, told The Daily Beast they would launch an appeal.
For over a decade, pork industry leaders held secret meetings to raise the price of sausage—but then someone squealed.
In Tiefurt we partook of a magnificent collation consisting of a mug of beer, brown bread and sausage!
Music-Study in Germany | Amy FayThey produced pumpernickel from one cupboard, and rye-bread and sausage from another, and all began to talk again and eat.
Three More John Silence Stories | Algernon BlackwoodThe central dish was a pork-pie, flanked by savory little patties of sausage.
There were geraniums on its sill, and a red sausage filled with sand kept out the draught when it was closed.
Mushroom Town | Oliver OnionsDivide into small sausage shapes, dip each in batter, fry a pale golden colour and serve very hot, garnished with crisped parsley.
Dressed Game and Poultry la Mode | Harriet A. de Salis
British Dictionary definitions for sausage
/ (ˈsɒsɪdʒ) /
finely minced meat, esp pork or beef, mixed with fat, cereal or bread, and seasonings (sausage meat), and packed into a tube-shaped animal intestine or synthetic casing
an object shaped like a sausage
aeronautics informal a captive balloon shaped like a sausage
not a sausage nothing at all
Origin of sausage
1Derived forms of sausage
- sausage-like, adjective
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