Please use the form below to search our dictionaries by entering a word you wish to define. (If you search this site to define words regularly, support this FREE site - Donate! )

Define the word ravs

ravs /ravz/, also `Chinese ravs' n. [primarily MIT/Boston usage]
   Jiao-zi (steamed or boiled) or Guo-tie (pan-fried). A Chinese appetizer,
   known variously in the plural as dumplings, pot stickers (the literal
   translation of guo-tie), and (around Boston) `Peking Ravioli'. The term
   `rav' is short for `ravioli', and among hackers always means the Chinese
   kind rather than the Italian kind. Both consist of a filling in a pasta
   shell, but the Chinese kind includes no cheese, uses a thinner pasta,
   has a pork-vegetable filling (good ones include Chinese chives), and is
   cooked differently, either by steaming or frying. A rav or dumpling can
   be cooked any way, but a potsticker is always the pan-fried kind (so
   called because it sticks to the frying pot and has to be scraped off).
   "Let's get hot-and-sour soup and three orders of ravs." See also
   {oriental food}.