egg roll

egg roll
noun
minced vegetables and meat wrapped in a pancake and fried
Syn: ↑spring roll
Regions:
Hypernyms: ↑dish

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noun
: an egg-dough casing filled with minced vegetables fried in deep fat

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Chinese-American Cookery.
a cylindrical casing of egg dough filled with a minced mixture of meat or shrimp, bamboo shoots, onions, etc., and fried in deep fat.
[1940-45]

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egg roll,
a casing of egg dough containing a mixture of minced vegetables and roast pork, fried in deep fat.

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n. a Chinese-style snack consisting of diced meat or shrimp and shredded vegetables wrapped in a dough made with egg and deep-fried

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noun, pl ⋯ rolls [count]
US : a very thin flat piece of dough that is wrapped around a mixture of chopped vegetables and often meat and then usually fried — called also spring roll
◇ Egg rolls are served in Chinese restaurants.

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ˌegg ˈroll f8 [egg roll] noun (NAmE)
a type of ↑spring roll in which the ↑pastry is made with eggs

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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