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corned beef

noun

Etymology

From corn (“to preserve (meat) in coarse corns of salt”, verb); (chief officer): rhyming slang for chief.

Definitions

  1. Smoke-cured and salted beef.

  2. Beef conserved in tins (cans).

  3. The chief officer of a prison.

    • Steve and I raced for the building and began climbing the wall, before any of the screws knew what was happening. […] The Corned Beef came out first and initiated the ploy to get us down.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA