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liberty sausage

noun
/ˌlɪb.ə.tiː ˈsɔː.sɪd͡ʒ/UK/ˌlɪb.əɹ.ti ˈsɔ.sɪd͡ʒ/US/ˌlɪb.əɹ.ti ˈsɒ.sɪd͡ʒ/CA/ˌlɪb.ə.tiː ˈsoː.sɪd͡ʒ/

Etymology

Coined during wartime because of antipathy toward the Germans and their language; see liberty cabbage.

Definitions

  1. A frankfurter.

    • Nearby, a boy in a tweed reefer sold frankfurters (though they couldn’t, of course, be called that any longer). “Liberty sausages!” cried the boy from his cart.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for liberty sausage. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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