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cold meat

cold meat noun: any cold cooked meat such as luncheon meat or lunch meat, spam, chopped pork, corned beef, and so on.

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, or people soon to be killed.
    • All dead. Cold meat.1964, Raymond Chandler, Killer in the Rain

Forms of cold meat

pluralcold meats

Words formed from cold meat

Questions about cold meat

What does cold meat mean?
Cold meat means any cold cooked meat such as luncheon meat or lunch meat, spam, chopped pork, corned beef, and so on.
What part of speech is cold meat?
Cold meat is a noun.
What is the plural of cold meat?
The plural of cold meat is cold meats.

Words near cold meat in the dictionary

  1. Cold Lake
  2. cold launch
  3. cold launches
  4. cold light
  5. cold lights
  6. cold meat
  7. cold meat box
  8. cold meat boxes
  9. cold meat cart
  10. cold meat carts
  11. cold meat train

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