gyros
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 9
- Words With Friends
- 9
- Letters
- 5
/ˈɡɪəɹəʊs/
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/ˈɡɪəɹəʊs/ · /jɪəɹ-/ · /ˈdʒɪəɹ-/ · /ˈdʒaɪɹ-/ · /ˈɡɪəɹəʊz/ · [ˈd͡ʒaɪɹoʊz]
Definition of gyros
3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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(alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of gyro (“Greek sandwich”).
“Now this has gotten me thinking ... I wonder whether I could build an odd-roc out of pita bread ... I'd have to toast it first, I guess, to make it rigid ... then again, I could roll it into a cone (sort of like the way I've most often seen gyroi made) and use a black olive for the nose to give it even more of a Greek touch ... hey, this has possibilities.”
“Well, hummus is a popular item at the Grease Trucks of Rutgers University (a group of catering trucks serving a variety of burgers, steaks, gyroi, and various Middle Eastern foods).”
“Greek sellers of gyroi in Australia often use the spelling word "yeeros" for the singular.”
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noun
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(alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of gyro (“Greek sandwich”).
“Now this has gotten me thinking ... I wonder whether I could build an odd-roc out of pita bread ... I'd have to toast it first, I guess, to make it rigid ... then again, I could roll it into a cone (sort of like the way I've most often seen gyroi made) and use a black olive for the nose to give it even more of a Greek touch ... hey, this has possibilities.”
“Well, hummus is a popular item at the Grease Trucks of Rutgers University (a group of catering trucks serving a variety of burgers, steaks, gyroi, and various Middle Eastern foods).”
“Greek sellers of gyroi in Australia often use the spelling word "yeeros" for the singular.”
- (form-of, plural)plural of gyro (“Greek sandwich”)
- (form-of, plural)plural of gyro (“gyroscope etc.”)
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Greek γύρος (gýros); from the turning of the meat on a spit (as a calque of Turkish döner into Greek).
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