dry meat

dry meat
 n.β€”Gloss: a euphemism for bushmeat. Β«It takes strategic thinking to find monkey meat in New York. Best to avoid the word β€œmonkey,” for one thing β€” start with something innocuous-sounding, like β€œdry meat.”…β€œThey’re coming to catch people for dry meat.”Β» β€”β€œA Taste of Baboon and Monkey Meat, and Maybe of Prison, Too” by Ellen Barry New York Times Nov. 17, 2007. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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