slow elk
n.— «The potluck stew was from two “slow elk,” as he liked to call beef cattle poached from particularly greedy entrepreneurs on the public’s wildlands.» —“Edward Abbey: Standing Tough In The Desert” by Edward Hoagland New York Times May 7, 1989. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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