monkey meat

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Noun

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monkey meat (uncountable)

  1. (US, military slang) Tinned meat.
    • 1929, Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, Folio Society, published 2008, page 184:
      ‘You'd better get some sleep,’ I said. ‘We can eat cheese and monkey-meat.’