meatball(an Italian (the stereotyped partiality of Italians for the dish) • Goldin et al. DAUL 137/2: Meat-ball. 1. (Chiefly N. Y. State prisons; Ital.-Amer.) [...] (applied derisively) a Negro. 2. (Same area; adopted by Irish-Amer. convicts) An Italian • On top of all this spaghetti is a meatball, an Italian • H. Rawson Dict. of Invective (1991) 12: The time-honored tradition of disparaging other nationalities, including the [...] Italians (Eyetalians, macaronis, meatballs). • ‘Jack Tunney’ Split Decision [ebook] I don’t like Mr Cardone [...] Treats me like a child, that meatballTaras)
