cold meat

English

Noun

cold meat (countable and uncountable, plural cold meats)

1. Any cold cooked meat such as luncheon meat or lunch meat, spam, chopped pork, corned beef, and so on.
2. (slang, uncountable) One or more corpses.
   • 1964, Raymond Chandler, ‎Killer in the Rain

     All dead. Cold meat.

Translations

cold cooked meat

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 冷肉 (zh) (lěngròu)

• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: kylmä liha
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• German: Wurstwaren f pl
• Portuguese: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: нарезка (ru) (narezka)
• Spanish: embutido (es) m, fiambre (es) m

Derived terms

• cold meat box
• cold meat cart
• cold meat train

References

• (corpses): 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary