A dish of ground meat (usually made from ground beef, although lamb, pork, veal, venison, poultry and seafood are also used) formed into a loaf shape, mixed with egg and breadcrumbs, then baked or smoked, and usually served in slices.
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meatloaf
Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for meatloaf.
Editorial note
It's like that time you ate a bunch of meatloaf right before coming down with the flu.
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A dish of ground meat (usually made from ground beef, although lamb, pork, veal, venison, poultry and seafood are also used) formed into a loaf shape, mixed with egg and breadcrumbs, then baked or smoked, and usually served in slices.
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Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for meatloaf.
noun
A dish of ground meat (usually made from ground beef, although lamb, pork, veal, venison, poultry and seafood are also used) formed into a loaf shape, mixed with egg and breadcrumbs, then baked or smoked, and usually served in slices.
Example sentences
It's like that time you ate a bunch of meatloaf right before coming down with the flu.
It wasn't the meatloaf, but you still might never eat it again...
Kellogg’s Frosted Flakes, Stouffer’s frozen meatloaf, Sprite and Pepsi, ibuprofen, Klondike Minis – shoppers were overpaying for all of them.
She wisely did not want to suffer the fate that stars like Meatloaf suffered when he hit it big young and then crashed and burned.
My Mom's meatloaf also has other ingredients than beef.
I don't think #2 is a taboo subject, Meatloaf wrote a song about it[1]:-) it just doesn't make for an interesting story for a movie.
If my meatloaf glaze recipe calls for ketchup, I'll just use Heinz or whatever, and not make it from scratch, unless it was really important to me.
I'm pretty sure it was a TVP meatloaf/burger...
Everybody will be so relieved that they don't have to eat another f'ng TGI Friday's meatloaf that they'll jump on the idea, even if they weren't in much of a Mexican mood 45 minutes ago when this stupid negotiation started.
Another aspect that helps is frankly meatloaf sucks, so 80% or so of the kids who can afford it, prefer mom's homemade sandwich over the hot lunch anyway, so in practice your food expenses don't really increase much, just the (larger) back office expenses go to zero.
Quote examples
Then the school has to hire a cashier to make sure the kids walking away with trays of meatloaf are either paying cash or "on the list".
I would love to be able to shop based on meals - where I say "on Wednesday night we are going to serve turkey meatloaf with broccoli and salad for 4 people" and understand the ingredients and proportions that match that.
I read an article recently about "space cuisine", which dispelled this myth -- it used to be that way, but what they go for now is more sticky stuff -- crumbs are still bad, but something like meatloaf with gravy would be fine.
Proper noun examples
Meatloaf just use rice as a binder instead of wheat flour and thicken the gravy with off the shelf cornstarch instead of wheat flour.
Since Meatloaf, I cannot think of any fat pop musicians.
Frequently asked questions
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How do you use meatloaf in a sentence?
It's like that time you ate a bunch of meatloaf right before coming down with the flu.
What does meatloaf mean?
A dish of ground meat (usually made from ground beef, although lamb, pork, veal, venison, poultry and seafood are also used) formed into a loaf shape, mixed with egg and breadcrumbs, then baked or smoked, and usually served in slices.
What part of speech is meatloaf?
meatloaf is commonly used as noun.