monkey meat

noun — 2 senses

monkey meat

noun

1

Government, Military, Politics, War US, Slang 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:

2

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see monkey, meat.

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