meat that has been cut up into very small pieces, made into a small flat mass or ball and fried. It is sometimes covered with breadcrumbs or, in the US, with pastry before it is cooked. Topics Foodc2炸肉饼;炸肉丸 Word Originearly 18th cent.: from French, from Old French dialect ruissole, from a feminine form of late Latin russeolus ‘reddish’, from Latin russus ‘red’.