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chitterlings

plural noun

variants or chitlins

Definition of chitterlings

as in entrails

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Recent Examples of chitterlings The menu is extensive and also offers soul food classics like oxtails, pig feet and chitterlings. — 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 | [email protected], al, 16 Dec. 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

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Plural Noun

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
Ancient peoples believed divine messages could be transmitted through a variety of mediums, including the entrails of dead animals, the stars, the behavior of birds and small bones or dice.

— Brigit Katz, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Aug. 2022

Definition of entrails

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Marmots, woodland creatures whose raw viscera are believed by Siberians to have medicinal properties, are not infrequently hunted by poachers and sold at wet markets.

— Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 25 July 2026
The sunfish had a large lateral wound, so the viscera had likely already been removed.

— Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 23 July 2026

Definition of viscera

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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
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

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