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meatza en · NOUN

Etymology

Blend of meat + pizza.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) A pizza-like dish made with a base of ground beef.
   • Diners are also partial to the rancheroni and meatza pizza. 2009 August 13, Dorene Weinstein, “Pizza joint moves but still is the Boss”, in Argus Leader, Sioux Falls, S.Dak., page 4D:
   • Meatza--Pizza With No Crust[…]The difference is that for a pizza pie you need a dough for the crust while for this dish ground meat serves as the “crust.” 1957 January 10, The Cincinnati Post, volume 75, number 310, Cincinnati, Ohio, page 24:
   • They were not only combining doughnuts and muffins, but just about any other kind of food you could think of. There were piecakens (a pie baked inside a cake), brookies (brownie and cookie) and cherpumples (cherry, pumpkin and apple pie). There were meatzas (a pizza with a ground beef crust), chocamole (avocado and chocolate guacamole) and turduckens (a chicken stuffed into a duck stuffed into a turkey). 2016 October 27, Tracy Beckerman, “Pass me a cronut or maybe a duffin!”, in The Gazette, page 10:
   • Her meatza pizza, a ground beef base covered with cheese and sauce was legendary. 2010 February 11, Steve Petusevsky, “Remembering Mom’s dishes”, in Sun Sentinel, volume 50, number 292, page 2E:

Forms

Synonyms

meatza pie