sausage
A food made from meat (or a substitute), shaped like a tube.
A food made from minced or ground meat (or a meat substitute) mixed with seasonings and usually formed into a long tube, often by stuffing it into a casing, then cooked.
A long, tube-like piece of soft material.
A long, roughly cylindrical piece of something soft or moldable, shaped like a sausage.
A rude slang word for a penis.
A penis (used as a slang, often crude or humorous term).
- Base: sausage
- Plural: sausage, sausages
not worth a sausage
1worth nothing at all
Not worth anything.
- That old phone isn’t worth a sausage now.
- The promise turned out to be not worth a sausage.
- His advice was not worth a sausage.
sausage dog
1dachshund (long-bodied dog)
A dachshund.
- My sister has a sausage dog called Milo.
- Two sausage dogs raced across the park.
- The vet specializes in small breeds like sausage dogs.
- This is my sausage dog.
- I like sausage dogs.
sausage fest
1place full of men
A place with almost only men.
- The gym was a total sausage fest at 6 a.m.
- Their group chat is a sausage fest—no one ever invites women.
- The cast is a sausage fest, and critics have noticed.
sausage fingers
1thick, swollen fingers
To have very thick fingers.
- My ring won’t come off—my fingers are like sausage fingers today.
- I can’t type well with these sausage fingers.
- After the long flight, she joked that she had sausage fingers from swelling.
- My fingers are like sausage fingers.
- I have sausage fingers today.
sausage party
1gathering with mostly men
A place or event with mostly men.
- I left early— it turned into a sausage party.
- The networking event was basically a sausage party.
- We need more women on the panel; right now it’s a sausage party.
sausage roll
1pastry filled with sausage meat
Meat wrapped in pastry and baked.
- I grabbed a sausage roll on the way to work.
- They served mini sausage rolls at the party.
- Can you warm up these sausage rolls in the oven?
- I want a sausage roll.
- We ate two sausage rolls.
sausage sizzle
1barbecue sausage fundraising event
An event selling grilled sausages, often to raise money.
- The school is running a sausage sizzle this Saturday.
- We stopped at the hardware store for a sausage sizzle.
- They raised money for the team with a sausage sizzle outside the hall.
- There is a sausage sizzle today.
- We bought sausages at the sausage sizzle.
see how the sausage is made
1learn messy behind-the-scenes truth
To see how something is really done, including the ugly parts.
- Working in politics taught her how the sausage is made.
- Don’t read the leaked emails if you don’t want to see how the sausage is made.
- Once you see how the sausage is made, you may not enjoy the product as much.