Definition of "sausage" []

• Finely chopped and seasoned meat, especially pork, usually stuffed into a prepared animal intestine or other casing and cooked or cured. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "The word sausage comes from the Latin for “salt,” and names a mixture of chopped meat and salt stuffed into an edible tube."
• "The only city I've found that competes with it in sausage is Milwaukee."
• "Whatever, almost any plain sausage is preferable to the hideous flavour pairings beloved of the modern butcher."