meat ball

plural meat balls

1. alternativeAlternative form of meatball.

   For those who like a fine, lean pork meat ball in a rich brown sauce, stewed meat balls (like the shrimp dish, formed in the shape of flat cakes) is the answer.

   1994 December 29, Max Jacobson, “Restaurants: Ruby Is Genuine Korean-Chinese”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 01 Sep 2026

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   Having been instructed by my wife never to address me in French or Flemish, and being incapable of announcing lunch in any other tongue, he simply raised one arm in a long, eloquent sweep toward the stairs and the smell of meat balls, and departed. […] Picking up a meat ball between thumb and forefinger, he bent stiffly from the waist and handed it to Palsy, dreaming, I do not doubt, of his life in Washington, among decent people.

   1939 December 15, E[lwyn] B[rooks] White, “Memoirs of a Master”, in The New Yorker, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast Publications, published 23 December 1939, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 01 Sep 2026, page 21

   THE riddle of the holiday entertaining season might be “What dish can he made ahead of time with a minimum of effort and served as an appetizer or a main dish at a buffet or a sit‐down supper?” The answer is meat balls, which can be prepared and served according to the demands of the occasion. “The Burger Cookbook” by Ruth Ellen Church lists 44 variations on the meat ball theme.

   1964 December 9, “Food: Meat Balls on the Party Menu […]”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC