lunch meat

noun

Etymology

From lunch + meat.

  1. derived from *meh₂d- — “to drip, ooze; grease, fat
  2. inherited from *matiz — “food
  3. inherited from *mati
  4. inherited from mete
  5. inherited from mete
  6. compounded as lunch meat — “lunch + meat

Definitions

  1. Any processed, prepackaged molded meat served sliced for consumption in sandwiches or…

    Any processed, prepackaged molded meat served sliced for consumption in sandwiches or salads.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

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

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