"spaghetti bowl" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: spaghetti bowls [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} spaghetti bowl (plural spaghetti bowls)
  1. (slang) A complicated freeway interchange. Tags: slang Hypernyms: spaghetti junction Related terms: spaghetti bowl effect
    Sense id: en-spaghetti_bowl-en-noun-eyAfbTY4 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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