cold meat

English

Noun

cold meat (countable and uncountable, plural cold meats)

1. Any cold cooked meat such as luncheon meat or lunch meat, spam, chopped pork, corned beef, and so on.
2. (slang, uncountable) One or more corpses, or people soon to be killed.
   • 1964, Raymond Chandler, Killer in the Rain:

     All dead. Cold meat.

Derived terms

• cold meat box
• cold meat cart
• cold meat train

Related terms

• cold cook

Translations

cold cooked meat

Catalan: carn freda f Chinese: Mandarin: 冷肉 (zh) (lěngròu) Danish: please add this translation if you can Finnish: kylmä liha German: Wurstwaren (de) f pl Polish: wędlina (pl) f Portuguese: please add this translation if you can Russian: нарезка (ru) (narezka) Spanish: embutido (es) m, fiambre (es) m

References

• 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary
• Lighter, Jonathan (1972), “The Slang of the American Expeditionary Forces in Europe, 1917-1919: An Historical Glossary”, in American Speech‎, volume 47, number 1/2, page 35