meat loaf
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- noun
- /miːt loʊf/
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pastel de carne
- For dinner, we had a delicious meat loaf served with mashed potatoes.
- meat loaf and mashed potatoes
- meat loaf and mashed potatoes
- make a meat loaf
Examples
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Let's try some of this meat loaf, okay?
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Paco said the meat loaf was good.
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Is that meat loaf on the table?
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I made you all a meat loaf.
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Like a nice meat loaf.
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I remember your meat loaf.
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You ordered the meat loaf.
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I made Chris meat loaf sandwiches for lunch tomorrow.
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Brussels sprouts and meat loaf for dinner.
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We've got potatoes, peas, sweet beans, decent meat loaf.
Synonyms
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1.2
A baked dish of ground meat shaped like a loaf with breadcrumbs and eggs
How Ground
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Morphology
The meaning 'a shaped baked dish of ground meat' is directly derivable from combining 'meat' (animal flesh used as food) with 'loaf' (a shaped mass of baked food). This noun–noun composition follows a clear compositional pattern (food + shape) that is cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Meat loaf gets its name from a simple picture: people shaped meat into a loaf like a loaf of bread and baked it. So the name means 'meat shaped and cooked like a loaf'.