minced pork, beef, or other meats, often combined, together with various added ingredients and seasonings, usually stuffed into a prepared intestine or other casing and often made in links.
Aeronautics. a sausage-shaped observation balloon, formerly used in warfare.
Origin of sausage
1400–50; late Middle English sausige<dialectal Old French sausiche<Late Latin salsīcia, neuter plural of salsīcius seasoned with salt, derivative of Latin salsus salted. See sauce, -itious
You can find grilled dishes like chorizo sausages and steak, topped with traditional chimichurri sauce.
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Carefully insert the sharpened end of a stick into one end of a sausage until it is securely impaled.
A Family-Friendly Camp Meal That Everyone Can Help With|Wes Siler|October 1, 2020|Outside Online
Hand one to each person, so they can cook their own sausage themselves.
A Family-Friendly Camp Meal That Everyone Can Help With|Wes Siler|October 1, 2020|Outside Online
Because the sausages were already safely cooked through in the pot, all you’re looking for is a browned, crispy exterior.
A Family-Friendly Camp Meal That Everyone Can Help With|Wes Siler|October 1, 2020|Outside Online
I was a vegetarian at the time so no sausage or bacon, but those were there, too.
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Lynchburg is a six-month-old German sausage and ale house in the heart of Panama's San Francisco neighborhood.
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Poke center of Italian sausages with chopstick to make well, fill with chocolate syrup and twist the open end of the sausage.
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For over a decade, pork industry leaders held secret meetings to raise the price of sausage—but then someone squealed.
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It wrapped around her like a sausage casing, barely leaving room to breathe.
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Seeing how the sausage is made is always interesting—even if the sausage isn't particularly spicy.
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Look here,” he cried, “both of you; that German sausage is a fool!
In the Mahdi's Grasp|George Manville Fenn
In effect, Daphne had asked for a kiss and had been given a sausage.
A Safety Match|Ian Hay
Fish, forward (that is, for the sailors); sausage, aft (for the members of the expedition).
The North Pole|Robert E. Peary
I tried one of those some time ago and it tasted like sawdust mixed with sausage finely ground and then baked.
Bill Bruce on Forest Patrol|Henry Harley Arnold
Not long ago Norman Prince became obsessed with the idea of bringing down a German "sausage," as observation balloons are called.
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British Dictionary definitions for sausage
sausage
/ (ˈsɒsɪdʒ) /
noun
finely minced meat, esp pork or beef, mixed with fat, cereal or bread, and seasonings (sausage meat), and packed into a tube-shaped animal intestine or synthetic casing
an object shaped like a sausage
aeronauticsinformala captive balloon shaped like a sausage
not a sausagenothing at all
Derived forms of sausage
sausage-like, adjective
Word Origin for sausage
C15: from Old Norman French saussiche, from Late Latin salsīcia, from Latin salsus salted; see sauce