meatza

English

Alternative forms

• meatsa
• meatzza

Etymology

Blend of meat +‎ pizza.

Noun

meatza (plural meatzas)

1. A pizza-like dish made with a base of ground beef.
   • 1957 January 10, The Cincinnati Post, volume 75, number 310, Cincinnati, Ohio, page 24:

     Meatza--Pizza With No Crust […] The difference is that for a pizza pie you need a dough for the crust while for this dish ground meat serves as the “crust.”

   • 2009 August 13, Dorene Weinstein, “Pizza joint moves but still is the Boss”, in Argus Leader, Sioux Falls, S.Dak., page 4D:

     Diners are also partial to the rancheroni and meatza pizza.

   • 2010 February 11, Steve Petusevsky, “Remembering Mom’s dishes”, in Sun Sentinel, volume 50, number 292, page 2E:

     Her meatza pizza, a ground beef base covered with cheese and sauce was legendary.

   • 2016 October 27, Tracy Beckerman, “Pass me a cronut or maybe a duffin!”, in The Gazette, page 10:

     They were not only combining doughnuts and muffins, but just about any other kind of food you could think of. There were piecakens (a pie baked inside a cake), brookies (brownie and cookie) and cherpumples (cherry, pumpkin and apple pie). There were meatzas (a pizza with a ground beef crust), chocamole (avocado and chocolate guacamole) and turduckens (a chicken stuffed into a duck stuffed into a turkey).