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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a type of ↑spring roll in which the ↑pastry is made with eggs
Useful english dictionary. 2012.