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lung butter

lung butter noun: thick mucus that is coughed up; phlegm.

Noun

lung butter (uncountable)

  1. (slang) Thick mucus that is coughed up; phlegm.
    • WAYNE: What I'd really like to do is something extraordinary. Something big. […] But I'll probably end up working at Great America, mopping up hurl and lung butter.1993, Wayne's World 2 (film)

Questions about lung butter

What does lung butter mean?
Lung butter means thick mucus that is coughed up; phlegm.
What part of speech is lung butter?
Lung butter is a noun.

Words near lung butter in the dictionary

  1. lunettes
  2. Lunfardo
  3. lung
  4. lung buster
  5. lung busters
  6. lung butter
  7. lung cancer
  8. lung cancers
  9. lung capacities
  10. lung capacity
  11. lung dart

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