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cake and wine

cake and wine noun: a restricted diet of bread and water, imposed as a disciplinary measure.

Noun

cake and wine (uncountable)

  1. (US, slang) A restricted diet of bread and water, imposed as a disciplinary measure.
    • After a week of privation on pound cake and white wine (strangely the Navy's slang for solitary confinement on bread and water was "cake and wine") Carlsen received warm nourishment.1980, The Compass, volumes 50-52, page 26
    • If one was 5 minutes late he got three days bread and water for a first offense. A second time got the culprit 5 days. Insolence and/or insubordination earned one a deck court-martial with 10 days on "cake and wine".2009, Chester A. Wright, Black Men and Blue Water, page 222
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cake, wine.

Questions about cake and wine

What does cake and wine mean?
Cake and wine means a restricted diet of bread and water, imposed as a disciplinary measure.
What part of speech is cake and wine?
Cake and wine is a noun.

Words near cake and wine in the dictionary

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  4. Cake and Cunnilingus Day
  5. cake and gingerbread
  6. cake and wine
  7. cake ball
  8. cake balls
  9. cake boy
  10. cake boys
  11. cake crumbs

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