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pizza bagel

pizza bagel

2 1.2
A bagel topped with tomato sauce and cheese, then baked or toasted
  • noun
  • /ˈpɪtsə ˈbeɪɡəl/
  • US
translation icon : bagel de pizza

Examples

  • Unless they have pizza bagels, then I might get both.

    Mean Girls (2024)

  • Does your mom still have pizza bagels?

    Superbad (2007)

  • I'm gonna go make pizza bagels.

    Better Living Through Chemistry (2014)

  • I enjoyed a delicious pizza bagel topped with pepperoni for my lunch.

  • For breakfast, I had a warm pizza bagel with extra cheese and tomato sauce.

  • She loves to snack on pizza bagels while watching her favorite shows.

How Filling

pizza
∞ 1.0
pizza bagel
  • US
2 1.2
bagel
140 1.0
slice
194 1.0
cracker
  • US
114 1.0

Surface Forms

pizza bagel singular
pizza bagels plural

Morphology

pizza + bagel

The meaning is directly derived from combining 'pizza' (toppings like sauce and cheese) with 'bagel' (a type of bread roll), indicating a bagel prepared or topped like a pizza. This noun–noun composition is a common, productive pattern in English and is easily inferable by a B1 learner who knows both constituent words.

Etymology

Pizza bagel comes from putting pizza toppings on a bagel: people add tomato sauce and cheese and bake or toast it like a small pizza. So, the name now means 'a bagel topped like a pizza'.