protein
n.— «Every 10 seconds a new cow—in slaughterhouse vernacular, “proteins”—enters Swift’s Greeley plant. Blood-spattered workers carve through the swaying, 1,200-pound carcasses.» —“Farmlands Seen as Fertile for Terrorism” by Charles Piller in Greeley, Colo. Los Angeles Times Aug. 22, 2004. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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