Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A mounded or molded dish, usually baked, of ground beef or a combination of various meats and other ingredients.
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- noun A main course of a meal, made of a mixture of ground meat (beef, pork, veal, etc., or a combination thereof) bread (breadcrumbs, cracker crumbs) with seasonings and vegetables such as onion, formed into a loaf or fitted into a loaf pan and baked, then served in slices.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a baked loaf of ground meat
Etymologies
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Examples
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Where else do you find ketchup if not in meatloaf?
Kerry Saretsky: Franglais: Boeuf Bourguignon Meatloaf Kerry Saretsky 2010
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Where else do you find ketchup if not in meatloaf?
Kerry Saretsky: Franglais: Boeuf Bourguignon Meatloaf Kerry Saretsky 2010
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Where else do you find ketchup if not in meatloaf?
Kerry Saretsky: Franglais: Boeuf Bourguignon Meatloaf Kerry Saretsky 2010
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Where else do you find ketchup if not in meatloaf?
Kerry Saretsky: Franglais: Boeuf Bourguignon Meatloaf Kerry Saretsky 2010
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Now, my meatloaf is less a loaf than a giant meatball, filled with bursts of blue cheese and sweet white onion.
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The meatloaf is often too dry and is always bland.
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Anyway, when I came here, I was disappointed to find no equivalent ... except for meatloaf, and there's a ton of junk in meatloaf and it actually does look like a loaf so it's not quite the same ...
Outline: Greenblatt vs. hooks fantasyecho 2007
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I'm thinking that they call meatloaf comfort food.
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And Booth was right to feel betrayed that she’d shared his story about eggs in meatloaf looking like eyeballs.
Alynda Wheat's Beat Cop: 'Law and Order' or high and mighty? | EW.com 2009
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Minou (it’s a French word for “kitty”) was tucked up in meatloaf mode on top of the espresso machine — plainly a smart move on a cold wet day — looking out at the pouring rain, eyes half closed.
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