sausage
Americannoun
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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.
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Aeronautics. a sausage-shaped observation balloon, formerly used in warfare.
noun
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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
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an object shaped like a sausage
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informal aeronautics a captive balloon shaped like a sausage
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nothing at all
Other Word Forms
- sausage-like adjective
- sausagelike adjective
Etymology
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
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Example Sentences
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My Domino’s order is a small pepperoni, pineapple, olives and sausage slice ... hand tossed, cheesed up, and then I will get a side of garlic knots and a side of buffalo wings with ranch.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 6, 2026
Henk de Haan, 63, throws onions and carrots into a pan -- essential ingredients in snert, a thick soup made with winter vegetables and pork, typically finished off with slices of Dutch smoked sausage.
From Barron's • Feb. 19, 2026
Back together again, some shared warm “Murdaugh Muffins,” made of sausage, cheddar and biscuit mix, as they debated the odds of a retrial.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 12, 2026
Italian sausage, sun-dried tomatoes, kale and half a portion of leftover restaurant tortellini?
From Salon • Feb. 8, 2026
Noodles and cheese with sausage on the side.
From "The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle" by Leslie Connor
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