sausage

noun

• 1a short cylindrical tube of minced pork, beef, or other meat encased in a skin, typically sold raw to be grilled or fried before eating.
• [mass noun] a cylindrical tube of minced pork, beef, or other meat seasoned and cooked or preserved, sold mainly to be eaten cold in slices:smoked German sausage
• [usually as modifier] an object shaped like a sausage.

• 2British used as an affectionate form of address, especially to a child:‘Silly sausage,’ he teased