Wiktionary
n. 1 A food made made by wrapping a combination of chopped vegetables, possibly meat, and sometimes noodles, in a sheet of dough, dipping the dough in egg or an egg wash, then deep frying it. 2 In many Asian countries and among their emigrants, an egg-based, flute-shaped pastry, with typically yellowish, flaky crust, often eaten as a sweet snack or dessert.
WordNet
n. minced vegetables and meat wrapped in a pancake and fried [syn: spring roll]
Wikipedia
Egg roll is a term used for many different foods around the world.
Usage examples of "egg roll".
A girl who had never had an egg roll, I thought, must have been brought up very oddly.
One chomp, and Pansy was swallowing in ecstasy, pieces of egg roll all over the floor.
Alarm took possession of me, as if I were watching an egg roll toward a table edge.
Though I haven't eaten much all day, I shake my head at the egg roll he lifts over my plate.
He uses chopsticks with Chinese food, and when I wave my hand in refusal, he keeps the small egg roll moving full circle and bites into it.
They were bowed to a table, tea was produced, and a moment later an egg roll rich with shrimp.
Dean studied the area carefully, walked over to the ubiquitous Chinese Take-Out, and bought an egg roll and a coffee.
She smiled to herself, and absently licked at the morsel of shrimp which had accidentally dropped from the egg roll and onto her left paw.
After a few more delicate bites, she laid the egg roll aside, picking up the knife and fork.
For example, that black man there by the window, the one shaking hands with Hiram Worchester himself, the one with the black silk shirt and the black leather coat and that absolutely unbelievable swollen forehead, that dangerous-looking black man with the cocoa-colored skin and almond-shaped eyes, who came off the elevator with three of the most ravishing women any of them have ever seen, even here in this room full of beautiful people is he, an ace, a palpable ace, going to pick up a little egg roll stuffed with shrimp and crabmeat when the waiter drifts by, and just pop it down the gullet without so much as missing a syllable of Hiram's cultured geniality, or is he more of a stuffed mushroom man at that.