lunch meat
noun
US
: cooked meat (such as sliced meat or canned meat) that is usually eaten cold
bought lunch meat for sandwiches
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Courtesy of Justin Lubin/A24 There’s a scene in Nathan Lane’s new movie in which the beloved icon of stage and screen grabs a sack of Boar’s Head deli lunch meat, chews it up, and spits it into the face of two writhing, grotesque, skeleton-like puppets.
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Marah Eakin, WIRED, 6 Oct. 2023
With equal turbo engines, the more expensive Daytona would obviously be lunch meat for the feisty Shelby.
—Jean Lindamood, Car and Driver, 28 Mar. 2023
Marah Eakin, WIRED, 6 Oct. 2023
With equal turbo engines, the more expensive Daytona would obviously be lunch meat for the feisty Shelby.
—Jean Lindamood, Car and Driver, 28 Mar. 2023
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“Lunch meat.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lunch%20meat. Accessed 7 Dec. 2023.
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