sausage roll

English

Noun

sausage roll (plural sausage rolls)

1. A short piece of sausage meat baked in a roll of pastry.
2. (Australian rules football, rhyming slang) A goal.
3. (rhyming slang) The dole; unemployment.
   • 2016, Luke Barnes, Richard Milward, Ten Storey Love Song:

     He had a go because I'm on the dole and I had a go back because he deals pills and robs kids. I love being on the sausage roll, I love being a free spirit; […]

Derived terms

• part sausage roll

Translations

short piece of sausage meat baked in a roll of pastry

• Bulgarian: кренвиршка f (krenvirška)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 香腸捲／香肠卷 (xiāngchángjuǎn)

• Danish: pølsehorn (da) n
• Dutch: saucijzenbroodje (nl) n, worstenbroodje (nl) n (Belgium)
• Finnish: nakkipiirakka
• French: friand (fr) m
• Greek: λουκανικόπιτα (el) f (loukanikópita)
• Indonesian: sosis gulung
• Japanese: ソーセージロール (sōsēji rōru)
• Russian: please add this translation if you can

See also

• meat pie
• pastie, pasty
• pig in a blanket