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Recent Examples of chitterlings
The menu is extensive and also offers soul food classics like oxtails, pig feet and chitterlings.
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Dallas News, 11 May 2022
Staffed only by Floyd, her husband and one of her close friends, Jewell’s traverses San Antonio and surrounding towns, purveying Southern classics such as po’boys, fried chicken, chitterlings and smothered pork chops.
—Caroline Tien, San Antonio Express-News, 28 Feb. 2022
The market gets its supply of the delicacy, otherwise known as chitterlings, from a distributor in Atlanta.
—William Thornton | Wthornton@al.com, al, 16 Dec. 2021
Meal combos, such as chitterlings, oxtail stew or fried catfish, served with corn muffin, sides and drinks.
—Priscilla Totiyapungprasert, The Arizona Republic, 28 Apr. 2021
Sampling, however, is also born of the Black vernacular tradition that gave us chitterlings, jazz and, yes, hip-hop.
—Adam Bradley, New York Times, 4 Mar. 2021
Dallas News, 11 May 2022
Staffed only by Floyd, her husband and one of her close friends, Jewell’s traverses San Antonio and surrounding towns, purveying Southern classics such as po’boys, fried chicken, chitterlings and smothered pork chops.
—Caroline Tien, San Antonio Express-News, 28 Feb. 2022
The market gets its supply of the delicacy, otherwise known as chitterlings, from a distributor in Atlanta.
—William Thornton | Wthornton@al.com, al, 16 Dec. 2021
Meal combos, such as chitterlings, oxtail stew or fried catfish, served with corn muffin, sides and drinks.
—Priscilla Totiyapungprasert, The Arizona Republic, 28 Apr. 2021
Sampling, however, is also born of the Black vernacular tradition that gave us chitterlings, jazz and, yes, hip-hop.
—Adam Bradley, New York Times, 4 Mar. 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for chitterlings
Plural Noun
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In one scene Dahmer goes fishing and, while learning to gut his catch, squeezes the entrails between his fingers and watches them ooze.—
Monica Hesse,
Washington Post,
18 Oct. 2022
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Art the Clown likes to play with people’s entrails.—
Jordan Moreau,
Variety,
28 Oct. 2022
Plural Noun
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Asus has made the Z13 look cooler than your average tablet, too, with a retro-futurist design that includes a small window to give you a peek at its impressive innards.—
Stephen Slaybaugh,
Popular Mechanics,
6 Feb. 2023
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This front-engine, rear-drive supercar is equally adept at whisking you comfortably to dinner at a three-star Michelin restaurant and mashing your innards together with its seemingly limitless performance.—
Frankie Cruz,
Car and Driver,
20 Jan. 2023
Cite this Entry
“Chitterlings.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chitterlings. Accessed 24 May. 2025.
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