Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A large sausage of finely ground pork or other meat, usually served as a cold cut.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A city of Italy which has given its name to various objects.
  • noun A Bologna sausage; also informally called baloney.
  • noun a large sausage made of bacon or ham, beef, veal, and pork, cooked and smoked, chopped fine and inclosed in a skin.
  • noun (Min.) radiated barite, or barium sulphate, found in roundish masses composed of radiating fibers, first discovered near Bologna. It is phosphorescent when calcined.
  • noun a vial of unannealed glass which will fly into pieces when its surface is scratched by a hard body, as by dropping into it a fragment of flint; whereas a bullet may be dropped into it without injury.

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  • noun a smoked, seasoned Italian sausage made from beef, pork or veal

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  • noun the capital of Emilia-Romagna; located in northern Italy to the east of the Apennines
  • noun large smooth-textured smoked sausage of beef and veal and pork

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[After Bologna.]

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From the Italian city of Bologna.

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Examples

  • His “double standard” bologna is just crap and proves how stupid he is!!

    Adam Lambert on his AMA vocals ('kind of a mess'), Elisabeth Hasselbeck ('we're very different'), and CBS' subtle message ('homosexuality is dangerous') | EW.com 2009

  • Call it bullshit, call it bologna, call it mind trickery or group hysteria, just don't call me crying when a freezing cold vapor-mist tries to push you out of a fourth story window in the Alexandria Hotel.

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  • Call it bullshit, call it bologna, call it mind trickery or group hysteria, just don't call me crying when a freezing cold vapor-mist tries to push you out of a fourth story window in the Alexandria Hotel.

    The 12 Scariest Haunted Places In Los Angeles LAist 2010

  • * Plain white rice and bologna is a perfect late night snack

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  • (aka sphagetti bolognese more or less). they call bologna il rosso (the red) b / c of all the red brick houses. it really becomes noticeable when you're on top of the city's tower looking down. btw, there's also a leaning tower here. molto cool! bologna also has another nickname: il grasso (the fat one) b / c of all the great food invented here. hopefully tonight i'll be able to experience it!

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  • I smelled something cooking and, following my nose, I found Jo and Meloux in the kitchen eating fried bologna sandwiches—the Ojibwe often call bologna “Indian steak”—leftover Jell-O salad, and chips.

    THUNDER BAY WILLIAM KENT KRUEGER 2007

  • I smelled something cooking and, following my nose, I found Jo and Meloux in the kitchen eating fried bologna sandwiches—the Ojibwe often call bologna “Indian steak”—leftover Jell-O salad, and chips.

    THUNDER BAY WILLIAM KENT KRUEGER 2007

  • I smelled something cooking and, following my nose, I found Jo and Meloux in the kitchen eating fried bologna sandwiches—the Ojibwe often call bologna “Indian steak”—leftover Jell-O salad, and chips.

    THUNDER BAY WILLIAM KENT KRUEGER 2007

  • I smelled something cooking and, following my nose, I found Jo and Meloux in the kitchen eating fried bologna sandwiches—the Ojibwe often call bologna “Indian steak”—leftover Jell-O salad, and chips.

    THUNDER BAY WILLIAM KENT KRUEGER 2007

  • : A variation on German bologna, which is nitrite/nitrate free and has less than 1% salt.

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