lunch meat
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1.7
- noun
- /lʌnʧ miːt/
- US
:
fiambre
- Mitchell contributed three boxes of Munchables, a packaged assortment of lunch meats, crackers, and processed cheese spreads that could be served in various combinations.
- slice of lunch meat
- eat lunch meat
- package of lunch meat
He preferred to get lunch meats and make sandwiches for himself.
- He preferred to get lunch meats and make sandwiches for himself.
Examples
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Pregnant mothers think twice about so many things, from aspirin to lunch meat.
Blog text (19) -
You will certainly have the ability to find coupons for items ranging from house cleansers to prepackaged lunch meats to early meal grains.
Blog text (19) -
Your husband left the lunch meat out overnight again; is it the end of the world?
Blog text (3) -
Well, when your last name is Ham, you get a lot of lunch meat related situations.
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I got us some beer and lunch meat there at the 7-Eleven.
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There's too much fat in lunch meat.
Fiction book (2002) -
Yeah, there's some lunch meat in the fridge if you want some.
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He preferred to get lunch meats and make sandwiches for himself.
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Kitty Ray placed the second piece of bread across the lunch meat, ran the knife through the sandwich on a diagonal, and pushed one half across the cutting board toward her daughter.
Fiction book (2000) -
For lunch, I made a sandwich with lunch meat, cheese, and lettuce.
Synonyms
9
2.0
Sliced meats like turkey or ham served cold for sandwiches and platters
1
3.0
Sliced cooked meat sold in a can or loaf and usually served cold
A large smooth smoked sausage often sliced and eaten cold
How Processed
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound combines 'lunch' (midday meal) and 'meat' (food from animals), so a B1 learner who knows both words can infer it refers to meat eaten or used at lunch (e.g., cold cuts or sandwich meat). This simple noun–noun compositional pattern is cross-linguistically common and therefore readily transparent to learners who know the constituents.
Etymology
Lunch meat comes from meat that was made and sliced to eat at lunch. Butchers cooked loaves or sausages that people could slice and eat cold in a 'sandwich' or 'lunchbox', so the name now means meat sold ready to eat.