sausage

Pluralsausages

Formssausages, sausaging, sausaged

1. 1
   meat foodnouncountable or uncountable

   Ground meat, or a food like meat, mixed with spices and stuffed into a long thin skin. Also one piece of it.

   We had eggs and sausage for breakfast.

   Dad grilled six sausages for the picnic, two of them vegetarian.

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   dognouncountable

   A dachshund, a small dog with a long body and very short legs.

   Her sausage can't climb the stairs on its short little legs.

   The sausage wagged its tail and barked at the mail carrier.

   Similardachshund

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   long shapenouncountable

   Something long and round, shaped like a sausage.

   Roll the dough into a sausage before you cut it into pieces.

   The cat slept against a sausage of rolled-up towel.

   Similarroll, cylinder

4. 4
   pet namenouncolloquialcountable

   A fond, playful name for someone you like.

   Good night, my little sausage, sleep well.

   Grandma calls all of us kids her little sausages.

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   penisnounslangvulgarcountable

   The penis, the part of a man's body between his legs.

   He made a rude joke about his sausage.

   Cover up your sausage, there are kids on the beach!

   Similarwilly, penis, wiener

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   stuff intoverbtransitive

   To push someone or something into clothes or a cover that is very tight.

   Mom tried to sausage me into my old winter jacket.

   She sausaged her feet into a pair of tight new boots.

   Similarsqueeze, cram, stuff, squash

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   verbtransitive

   To roll things up tightly into a long bundle.

   Sausage your swimsuit inside the towel so the bag stays dry.

   She sausaged her clothes into tight rolls to save space in her bag.

   Similarroll, bundle

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   verbtransitive

   To make something look fat and tight, like a sausage about to burst.

   Tight socks sausage my legs at the end of a long day.

   The heat sausaged her fingers so her rings would not come off.

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   pull onverbtransitivewith on

   To pull on tight clothes, squeezing your body into them.

   Every morning I sausage on my tight work pants.

   He sausaged on his wetsuit before the swim.

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10. 10
    process meatverbtransitive

    To turn meat into sausage.

    We sausage the leftover pork every winter.

    Grandpa sausaged the deer meat in his garage.

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    unemploymentnounslangcountable or uncountableabbreviationellipsis

    Short for sausage roll, British slang for money the government pays people who have no job.

    My cousin lost his job and is on the sausage now.

    It is hard to pay the bills when you are on the sausage.

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    bulge (engineering)verbintransitive

    In engineering, to take a shape like a sausage, thick in some places and thin in others.

    When the soft pipe is squeezed too hard, it starts to sausage.

    The line of wet clay sausaged as it came out of the printer.

    Similarbulge

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