corned beef
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See also: Corned Beef and corned-beef
English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From corn (“to preserve (meat) in grains and brine”, verb); (chief officer): rhyming slang for chief.
Noun
[edit]corned beef (countable and uncountable, plural corned beefs)
- Smoke-cured and salted beef.
- Beef conserved in tins (cans).
- (UK, prison slang, historical) The chief officer of a prison.
- 1999, Alex Alexandrowicz, David Wilson, The Longest Injustice: The Strange Story of Alex Alexandrowicz:
- Steve and I raced for the building and began climbing the wall, before any of the screws knew what was happening. […] The Corned Beef came out first and initiated the ploy to get us down.
Translations
[edit]smoke-cured and salted beef
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beef conserved in tins
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See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]corned beef on Wikipedia.Wikipedia