cold cuts
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2.0
- noun
- /koʊld kʌts/
- The catered lunch included a variety of cold cuts and cheeses for everyone to enjoy.
- cheese and cold cuts
- bread and cold cuts
- cold cuts and salads
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Watch on YouTubeSo processed meat, bacon, you know the Subway sandwich, you know cold cuts.
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- You know somebody that I guess want to have cold, you know, cold cuts or whatever close to them and they left it in a damn.
- So it can be in things like oats, it's in ketchup, it's in mustard, it's in pasta sauces, it's in cold cut meats.
Examples
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There were salads, thinly sliced bread, and cold cuts.
Fiction book (1999) -
Jake laid out the cold cuts on a platter.
Fiction book (1995) -
We can buy some cold cuts, eat in the room.
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And a little plate of cold cuts, if there are any left.
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Kathleen had left a sandwich made from his cold cuts on the table.
Fiction book (1991) -
Ronnie, why don't you run down to the store, and you get some cold cuts for all of us for lunch?
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Maybe we'd better pick up some cold cuts and a few gallons of beer on the way home.
Fiction book (1998) -
There were fifty pounds of meat in there—we ate cold cuts for weeks.
Fiction book (1991) -
But delicious stuff: cold cuts, pickles, fresh rye bread, cream sodas; you thought you were in a deli, Petaks, maybe.
Fiction book (1997) -
You got cold cuts, bagels, coffee, lox, celery tonic and bran muffins.
Synonyms
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1.7
Cold sliced cooked meat used in sandwiches or as a snack
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3.0
Sliced cooked meat sold in a can or loaf and usually served cold
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'cold' (served at a low temperature) modifies 'cuts' (slices/portions of meat), so a learner who knows both words can infer 'slices of meat served cold.' This follows a basic adjective+noun pattern and is a common culinary concept cross-linguistically, making it readily understandable to a B1 learner.
Etymology
The noun cold cuts comes from a simple image: thin cuts of cooked or preserved meat kept cold in a shop or deli, ready to eat. That's why cold cuts means 'sliced meats served cold' today.