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pretzel

PRET-suhl/ˈpɹɛt.səl/

Pluralpretzels

Verbpretzels

3 meanings of pretzel

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  1. 1
    nouncountable
    A baked snack made from dough, usually twisted into a loose knot shape.

    Like a piece of dough tied into a loose knot and then baked.

    She dipped her pretzel in mustard at the ballgame.

    Warm pretzels from the street cart smelled wonderful.

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  2. 2
    nouncountable
    Anything that is twisted or tangled into knots.

    The cables behind the desk had turned into a pretzel.

    After the crash, the bike frame was bent into a pretzel.

    Similartangle, knot, snarl, twist

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  3. 3
    verbcolloquialCanadaUStransitive
    To bend or twist something into a complicated, knotted shape.

    Like twisting a soft straw into a knot.

    Gymnasts can pretzel their bodies into tight shapes.

    He pretzeled the straw into a tiny knot.

    Similartwist, bend, contort

    Oppositestraighten, untangle

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Origin

From German Pretzel (also Brezel). It goes back to Latin bracchium, meaning "arm," because a pretzel looks like folded arms.