Definition of "forcemeat" [force•meat]

• Finely ground and highly spiced meat, fish, or poultry that is served alone or used in stuffing. (noun)

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• "V.F. contributing editor David Kamp and the saucy Marion Rosenfeld's The Food Snob's Dictionary (Broadway) enlightens denizens of Hooters-style breastaurants about the finer points of "forcemeat" whilst delighting those high-hat cuisinerds who can gas on about "fair trade" until the grass-fed, free-range cows come home."
• "-- A simple kind of forcemeat balls may be made according to the accompanying recipe."
• "Wallie reflected, as he sat with his feet on the stove-hearth overflowing with ashes, that when it came to the "forcemeat" he was"