meat tag
n.— «Morale is low. I confirm that from hearing quite bitter references to taking “meat tags” on flights and hoping parachutes will open.» —by Hubert Ferdinand Opperman Pedals, Politics, and People , 1977. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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