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Glasgow salad

Glasgow salad noun: a serving of chips/fries.

Noun

Glasgow salad (countable and uncountable, plural Glasgow salads)

  1. (humorous, slang) A serving of chips/fries.
    • Nor was I ever able to treat myself to the national drunkard's delight that is the ‘munchy box’: a foot-square pizza carton crammed with onion rings, doner meat shavings, hunks of nan bread and nuggets of assorted bhaji, all served on a bed of Glasgow salad.2012, Tim Moore, You Are Awful (But I Like You): Travels Around Unloved Britain, Vintage, →ISBN, page 149

Forms of Glasgow salad

pluralGlasgow salads

Origin of Glasgow salad

From the Scottish predilection for fast food.

Questions about Glasgow salad

What does Glasgow salad mean?
Glasgow salad means a serving of chips/fries.
What part of speech is Glasgow salad?
Glasgow salad is a noun.
What is the plural of Glasgow salad?
The plural of Glasgow salad is Glasgow salads.

Words near Glasgow salad in the dictionary

  1. Glasgow magistrate
  2. Glasgow magistrates
  3. Glasgow oyster
  4. Glasgow oysters
  5. Glasgow patter
  6. Glasgow salad
  7. Glasgow salads
  8. Glasgow smile
  9. Glasgow smiles
  10. Glasgowian
  11. Glasgowians

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