slow elk

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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