dumpling-depot
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Noun[edit]
dumpling-depot (plural dumpling-depots)
- (archaic, humorous, slang) Synonym of breadbasket (“the abdomen or stomach, especially as a vulnerable part of the body in an attack”)
- 1886, Judy's Annual, volume 38, page 182:
- But the mashers glared through their eyeglasses with surprise, as Montague's cheese whirled along, and flattened the waiter's dumpling-depot like a pancake.