meat diaper
n.— «I buy such meat all the time, and the first thing I do when I get it home is to take off the saran wrap and discard that little meat diaper and place it in the coolest part of the fridge.» —“The same thoughts apply” by CDR Will Townhall.com Jan. 22, 2007. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
Jill from Greenville, South Carolina, wants to know why pickle automatically means “pickled cucumber,” as opposed to other pickled vegetables, such as onions and carrots. The answer has to do with prototypicality, the cultural agreement that one...
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