Definitions for spareribs

spareribs spare·ribs

Spelling: [spair-ribz]
IPA: /ˈspɛərˌrɪbz/

Spareribs is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 426 anagrams from letters in spareribs (abeiprrss).

Definitions for spareribs

noun

  1. a cut of meat from the rib section, especially of pork or beef, with some meat adhering to the bones.
  2. a dish of this meat, usually baked, roasted, or barbecued with a pungent sauce.

Origin of spareribs

1590-1600; transposed variant of earlier ribspare Middle Low German ribbespēr rib cut; compare obsolete spare a cut, slice

Examples for spareribs

He reflected a moment, studying the spareribs, which had just arrived.

The ribs inside this cut, when cut from underneath, are sold as spareribs.

The spareribs give the cabbage a very pleasing flavor and at the same time supply nourishment to the dish.

The chines and spareribs are but slightly salted and laid on top of the bulk of neat meat.

He ordered roast beef hash with a poached egg, spareribs with boiled cauliflower, and two charlotte russes.

He give her ten bushels corn, good deal of meat—back bone and spareribs.

My mother means to pay herself for the salt and the trouble of ordering it to be cured by the spareribs, the souse, and the lard.

He comes back with a armful of bread and spareribs and pies.

The package of spareribs fell from under his arm, and he stooped to pick it up.

Or look around to see if any of the party or the pack was rolling down over the spareribs of that ghastly skeleton.

Word Value for spareribs
Scrable

13

Words with friends

15

Similar words for spareribs
Word of the day