Definitions

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

  • noun An appetizer consisting of a marinated piece of chicken liver and a water chestnut wrapped in a slice of bacon and grilled or broiled.

Etymologies

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

[Perhaps short for Japanese harumaki, spring roll (haru, spring + maki, roll, verbal noun of maku, to roll), translation of Chinese (Mandarin) chūn juǎn ; see spring roll.]

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Examples

  • No one will be dragged from their beds and forced to wear collared shirts or attend avant-garde theater productions in Tibetan restaurant stairwells or serve rumaki at backyard barbecues.

    Will Durst: Flag Raising Robester 2010

  • In my play world, the drinks were fresh and free-flowing, the rumaki were hot, and the swingers were all passably attractive.

    i know i am, but what are you? SAMANTHA BEE 2010

  • In my play world, the drinks were fresh and free-flowing, the rumaki were hot, and the swingers were all passably attractive.

    i know i am, but what are you? SAMANTHA BEE 2010

  • No one will be dragged from their beds and forced to wear collared shirts or attend avant-garde theater productions in Tibetan restaurant stairwells or serve rumaki at backyard barbecues.

    Will Durst: Flag Raising Robester 2010

  • Also, the chicken-liver-and-water-chestnut snack rumaki was popularized in 1941 at the Don the Beachcomber restaurant in Palm Springs, Calif.

    Corrections & Amplifications 2009

  • Also, the chicken-liver-and-water-chestnut snack rumaki was popularized in 1941 at the Don the Beachcomber restaurant in Palm Springs, Calif.

    Hot Dates Make It on the Restaurant Scene 2009

  • What book would you give to friends who yearn to live amid covered bridges, weathered red barns, and church suppers to which nobody brings a dish that includes rumaki?

    2006 November 20 « One-Minute Book Reviews 2006

  • What book would you give to friends who yearn to live amid covered bridges, weathered red barns, and church suppers to which nobody brings a dish that includes rumaki?

    2006 November « One-Minute Book Reviews 2006

  • I was but a child of 10 for most of 1976, and all I remember of the parties my parents threw back then was the rumaki and the Lipton's onion dip.

    Lauren Cahn: The Opening of the American Marriage? 2008

  • She finished arranging the rumaki and put the little plate on the counter between us.

    Little Girl Blue Cray, David 2002

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