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lunch meat

lunch meat noun: any processed, prepackaged molded meat served sliced for consumption in sandwiches or salads.

lunch meat: any processed, prepackaged molded meat served sliced for consumption in sandwiches or salads
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Noun

lunch meat (countable and uncountable, plural lunch meats)

  1. Any processed, prepackaged molded meat served sliced for consumption in sandwiches or salads.
    Synonyms:
    luncheon meat

Synonyms of lunch meat

Forms of lunch meat

plurallunch meats
alternative formlunchmeat

Origin of lunch meat

From lunch + meat.

Questions about lunch meat

What does lunch meat mean?
Lunch meat means any processed, prepackaged molded meat served sliced for consumption in sandwiches or salads.
What part of speech is lunch meat?
Lunch meat is a noun.
What is the plural of lunch meat?
The plural of lunch meat is lunch meats.

Words near lunch meat in the dictionary

  1. lunch in
  2. lunch kettle
  3. lunch kettles
  4. lunch ladies
  5. lunch lady
  6. lunch meat
  7. lunch meats
  8. lunch money
  9. lunch out
  10. lunch pail
  11. lunch pail Democrat

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