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brat

brat

22 5.0
A small pork sausage like a bratwurst
  • noun
  • /bræt/
  • US
translation icon : bratwurst
  • For lunch, I enjoyed a delicious brat topped with mustard and onions.
  • beer brats
  • burgers and brats
  • grilling brats

I'm definitely thinking they're throwing brats over there in Illinois.

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Examples

  • It's 8 degrees, and I grill brats in the snow.

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  • Have you ever heard me say I'd really like more beer, brats, and ballgames?

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  • So we have people coming over, we got brats and potato salad and all Americana today.

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  • First Congregational from Princeton is selling brats, and there's the 4-H food stand.

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  • At the barbecue, we grilled traditional German brats served with sauerkraut.

  • We always have brats at our family picnics along with baked beans.

Synonyms

hot dog
vsbrat
252 1.0

A cooked sausage in a sliced bun, often with mustard or ketchup

is a small pork sausage often linked to a German grilled tradition
sausage
vsbrat
184 1.0

A food made from ground meat and spices in a thin skin

is a small pork example of this general food category
hotdog
vsbrat
19 1.0

A cooked sausage in a sliced bun often eaten as fast food

is a smaller grilled pork item, usually fresher than this packaged snack
bratwurst
vsbrat
13 4.5

A German sausage people make from pork and often cook on a grill to eat in a bread roll

is a smaller pork sausage term used especially for that German type
banger
vsbrat
  • UK
6 8.2

A pork sausage often served with mashed potatoes

is a small German-style pork variety, not specifically tied to that serving
Vienna sausage
vsbrat
5 3.6

A small thin cooked sausage sold in cans or jars

is a small fresh pork sausage cooked to order rather than canned
pork sausage
vsbrat
3 1.0

A food people make from ground pork and spices inside a skin and cook

is a smaller, often German, example rather than the whole pork category
knackwurst
vsbrat
2 8.6

A short thick German sausage usually made from pork and beef

is usually a smaller pure pork variant unlike this heavy mixed version
knockwurst
vsbrat
  • US
2 8.1

A short, thick German sausage made from pork and beef

is a smaller pork-only style rather than this thicker mixed-meat type
wurst
vsbrat
1 5.1

A German sausage made from pork, beef or veal and spices

is a small pork form usually associated with that German family
blutwurst
vsbrat
1 9.9

A German sausage made from pork and blood with spices

is a regular pork meat sausage without blood as the main ingredient
wienerwurst
vsbrat
8.8

A thin smoked sausage made from beef or pork often served in a bun

is typically fresh and grilled rather than smoked and processed

Compounds

army brat
  • Informal
3 6.3

A child whose parent is in the army who grows up on military bases and moves often

snot-nosed brat
  • Offensive
1 9.9

A rude child who annoys other people

Surface Forms

brat singular
brats plural

Etymology

Brat for the small pork sausage comes from the German word bratwurst, where brat meant 'finely chopped meat' and wurst meant 'sausage', so brat is just the short, familiar name for that German sausage.