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summer sausage

summer sausage noun: sausage cured to the extent that it requires no refrigeration.

summer sausage: sausage cured to the extent that it requires no refrigeration
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Noun

summer sausage (countable and uncountable, plural summer sausages)

  1. Sausage cured to the extent that it requires no refrigeration.
    • Now these bodies hanging from that overhead pipe. The cocked heads. The dangling shoes. The tongues protruding like summer sausages.1980, Stephen King, The Mist, Viking Press

Forms of summer sausage

pluralsummer sausages

Questions about summer sausage

What does summer sausage mean?
Summer sausage means sausage cured to the extent that it requires no refrigeration.
What part of speech is summer sausage?
Summer sausage is a noun.
What is the plural of summer sausage?
The plural of summer sausage is summer sausages.

Words near summer sausage in the dictionary

  1. summer queenings
  2. summer resort
  3. summer resorts
  4. summer roll
  5. summer rolls
  6. summer sausage
  7. summer sausages
  8. summer savory
  9. summer school
  10. summer schools
  11. summer slide

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