monkey meat en · NOUN
Meanings
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(US, slang, uncountable) Tinned meat.
‘You'd better get some sleep,’ I said. ‘We can eat cheese and monkey-meat.’
1929, Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, Folio Society, published 2008, page 184:
- (uncountable) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see monkey, meat.