spaghetti

n. a type of pasta made in long, thin strings.

n. a variety of pasta shaped into long, thin, cylindrical strands.

“We had spaghetti with tomato sauce and meatballs for dinner last night.”

“The chef insisted on cooking the spaghetti al dente to ensure it maintained a firm texture when tossed with the seafood sauce.”

n. a messy or tangled collection of things, like wires or cables.

n. a tangled or disorganized collection of physical objects, typically cables or wires, resembling pasta.

“There is a spaghetti of cables behind the television that needs to be organized.”

“The technician spent hours untangling the spaghetti of multicoloured wires hidden behind the server rack.”

Informal

n. computer code that is messy and hard to understand because it is not organized well.

n. source code with a complex and tangled control structure, making it difficult to maintain or follow.

“The old software was full of spaghetti code that made it impossible to fix bugs.”

“The legacy system was a nightmare to update because the original developers had relied on spaghetti code rather than modular design.”

Technical · Informal

v. to become twisted or tangled together.

v. to become or cause to become tangled or knotted in a manner resembling pasta.

“The fishing lines started to spaghetti after the wind picked up.”

“If you don't store these headphones properly, the thin wires will spaghetti inside your pocket.”

Informal