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From corn (“to preserve (meat) in coarse corns of salt”, verb); (chief officer): rhyming slang for chief.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
corned beef
Today it means: Smoke-cured and salted beef. Full definition →
Today it means: Smoke-cured and salted beef. Full definition →
From corn (“to preserve (meat) in coarse corns of salt”, verb); (chief officer): rhyming slang for chief.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.