chicken cutlet
n.— «I guess my own body was good enough at the audition, but with the costumes they chose, it just wasn’t the “dream bust” they wanted.…They wanted something out of control. I had these things that look like chicken cutlets in my bra.» —“Miss Sally’s a sight for incarcerated eyes in Oz” by Frazier Moore in New York Toronto Star (Canada) Sept. 7, 1999. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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