Meatball (disambiguation)
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Meatball may also refer to:
Meatball as a nickname may sometimes refer to:
- Meatballs (film)Meatballs (film)Meatballs is a 1979 Canadian comedy film directed by Ivan Reitman. It is noted for the first film appearance of Bill Murray in a starring role and for launching Reitman into a distinguished career of financially successful comedies including Stripes and Ghostbusters , both starring Murray...
, 1979 film by Ivan Reitman, starring Bill Murray- The film's sequels Meatballs 2Meatballs 2Meatballs Part II is a 1984 film that was a sequel to the 1979 movie Meatballs, but was released by a different studio and did not feature the same actors...
, Meatballs IIIMeatballs IIIMeatballs III: Summer Job is a 1986 film that was the third installment in the Meatballs film series, and the first in the series to be Rated R. Unlike Meatballs Part II, this film follows Rudy , grown up and working on a summer job for an angry boss named Mean Gene...
and Meatballs 4Meatballs 4Meatballs 4 is a 1992 film that was the fourth and final installment to the Meatballs franchise. It was shot in its entirety at Bass Lake, California in the late summer of 1991.-Synopsis:...
- The film's sequels Meatballs 2
- MeatballWikiMeatballWikiMeatballWiki is a wiki dedicated to online communities, network culture, and hypermedia.Founded in 2000, its original goal was to focus on collaborative hypermedia, but current topics range from intellectual property to cyberpunk to the confusion of URIs....
, wiki dedicated to online culture
Meatball as a nickname may sometimes refer to:
- Battlefield medicineBattlefield medicineBattlefield medicine, also called field surgery and later combat casualty care, is the treatment of wounded soldiers in or near an area of combat. Civilian medicine has been greatly advanced by procedures that were first developed to treat the wounds inflicted during combat...
, or 'meatball surgery', treatment of wounded soldiers in or near an area of combat - Optical Landing SystemOptical Landing SystemAn optical landing system is used to give glidepath information to pilots in the terminal phase of landing on an aircraft carrier...
, as installed on CATOBAR-oriented aircraft carriers - NASA logoNASA logoThe National Aeronautics and Space Administration logo has three main official designs, although the one with stylized red curved text has been retired from official use since 1992...
, in use prior to 1975 and since 1992 - AEM7, American locomotive
- An ethnic slur for an Italian-American
- SlangSlangSlang is the use of informal words and expressions that are not considered standard in the speaker's language or dialect but are considered more acceptable when used socially. Slang is often to be found in areas of the lexicon that refer to things considered taboo...
for the roundelRoundelA roundel in heraldry is a disc; the term is also commonly used to refer to a type of national insignia used on military aircraft, generally circular in shape and usually comprising concentric rings of different colours.-Heraldry:...
used by Imperial Japanese NavyImperial Japanese NavyThe Imperial Japanese Navy was the navy of the Empire of Japan from 1869 until 1947, when it was dissolved following Japan's constitutional renunciation of the use of force as a means of settling international disputes...
aircraft during World War IIWorld War IIWorld War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis... - an IdiotIdiotAn idiot, dolt, or dullard is a mentally deficient person, or someone who acts in a self-defeating or significantly counterproductive way. Archaically the word mome has also been used. The similar terms moron, imbecile, and cretin have all gained specialized meanings in modern times. An idiot is...
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