gou|lash

gou|lash
gou|lash «GOO lahsh», noun.
1. a stew made of beef or veal and vegetables, usually highly seasoned.
2. a redeal in contract bridge intended to produce freak hands, before which each player arranges his cards by suits and order of value. The cards are dealt without shuffling in blocks of five, five, and three.
3. Figurative. a hodgepodge: »

What we get is a goulash of Gilbert and Sullivan, the Princeton Triangle Club, a girls' choir, and some genuine romantic melody (Wall Street Journal).

[< Hungarian gulyás (originally herdsman]

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