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  • noun informal spaghetti

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Examples

  • Italy in campaign to defend reputation of spaghetti bolognese ITALY began a campaign yesterday to defend the reputation of one of its most famous but most widely abused exports: pasta with bolognese sauce - otherwise known as spag bol.

    AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories 2010

  • Italy in campaign to defend reputation of spaghetti bolognese ITALY began a campaign yesterday to defend the reputation of one of its most famous but most widely abused exports: pasta with bolognese sauce - otherwise known as spag bol.

    AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories 2010

  • Italy in campaign to defend reputation of spaghetti bolognese ITALY began a campaign yesterday to defend the reputation of one of its most famous but most widely abused exports: pasta with bolognese sauce - otherwise known as spag bol.

    AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories 2010

  • Italy in campaign to defend reputation of spaghetti bolognese ITALY began a campaign yesterday to defend the reputation of one of its most famous but most widely abused exports: pasta with bolognese sauce - otherwise known as spag bol.

    AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories 2010

  • I'll miss their daft banter in the evenings, though: they were ideal spag bol companions and made long drives whizz by.

    Rewind radio: One block in Harlem; A coat, a Hat and a Gun; Seeksmusic.com | review 2011

  • So he and Jim Dale, veteran of countless Carry On movies, nipped into a local Italian restaurant and hastily improvised a song listing spag bol, tagliatelle and all the other items they could find on the menu.

    Young Vic at 40: the Young and the restless Michael Billington 2010

  • Sadly, my culinary skills these days stretch little further than grilled chicken and veg, or a Dolmio spag bol.

    Food, glorious food 2011

  • Chilli is one of a select coterie of dishes we've really taken to our greedy hearts in this country, even going so far as to honour it with a full culinary makeover see also spag bol, guacamole and green curry.

    How to cook perfect chilli con carne 2011

  • Back at Park Farm he's making stocks, dumplings, spag bol and organising a barbecue.

    Tonight's TV highlights 2010

  • Anything you base off a white sauce… macaroni cheese with chicken or bacon, capsicum and corn, pasta a tuna, spag bog of course.

    What Are Your Go-To Recipes For Multiple Meals? | Lifehacker Australia 2010

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  • Found on Twitter: "I seem to confuse people with the word “spag”, which is Welsh word that means “to get scratched by a cat”. Specifically a cat. Not any other animal. Just a cat"

    https://twitter.com/oldmansteptoe/status/1120666272138764289

    April 23, 2019

  • See also spag bol, common British slang for spaghetti bolognese. Is “spag” ever used apart from “bol?” As in “I’ll boil the spag. You make the bol.”

    April 23, 2019

  • Occasionally I hear someone say 'fancy some spag?'

    April 23, 2019

  • Or that sweet tomatoey gunk, 'tinned spag'.

    April 23, 2019

  • British English speaker calls a spaghetti meal a spag bowl: https://youtube.com/shorts/IxyFqwv8qbM?si=WlZ_SHSwPJBv_q6H

    December 8, 2024