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🍗 A cheesy dish 🧀 Parmesan cheese
parm

parm

7 6.8
A cooked dish like chicken or eggplant with tomato sauce and melted cheese
  • noun
  • /pɑrm/
  • Informal
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  • Come on, it's eggplant parm from Gullini's.
  • chicken parm
  • eggplant parm
  • veal parm

Yeah, Google can do all that big ziti, chicken parm, veal, veal.

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Examples

  • Dino's eggplant parm is to die for.

    All at Once (2016)

  • Can I have a chicken parm with meat sauce?

    The King of Staten Island (2020)

  • The chicken parm is 25 dollars.

    Blog text (9)

  • Or we can make chicken parm.

    Keeping Up with the Joneses (2016)

  • What about the fabulous chicken parm he makes at home?

    Blog text (3)

  • So now every once in a while, I make eggplant parm, and the kids love it.

    Foe Paws (2000)

  • If you can't beat 'em, order a veal parm.

    A Feast of Man (2016)

  • I ordered a delicious parm for dinner that was loaded with cheese and sauce.

  • The chef recommended the eggplant parm as the special dish of the day.

  • You can make a great parm by layering fried eggplant with marinara and cheese.

Synonyms

parmigiana
vsparm
5 4.6

An Italian baked dish with layers of breaded meat or vegetables, tomato sauce and cheese

is a casual name used for such sauced and cheesed dishes
eggplant parmesan
vsparm
  • US
1 3.0

A baked Italian dish of breaded fried eggplant layered with tomato sauce and melted cheese

is an informal name for that kind of sauced and cheesed dish

Surface Forms

parm singular
parms plural

Etymology

Parm is a short form of parmigiana, as in 'chicken parmigiana', and the name points to the parmesan cheese often put on top. So when someone orders a parm, they mean a cheese-and-tomato topped dish.