cold meat

noun

Any cold cooked meat such as luncheon meat or lunch meat, spam, chopped pork, corned beef, and so on.

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Meanings

nouncold meat (countable and uncountable, plural cold meats)

plural cold meats

  1. countableuncountableAny cold cooked meat such as luncheon meat or lunch meat, spam, chopped pork, corned beef, and so on.
  2. slanguncountableOne or more corpses, or people soon to be killed.

    All dead. Cold meat.

    1964, Raymond Chandler, Killer in the Rain

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
cold turkey

Translations

Catalan carn freda
  • carn fredacold cooked meat
Chinese Mandarin 冷肉
  • 冷肉 (lěngròu)cold cooked meat
Finnish kylmä liha
  • kylmä lihacold cooked meat
German Wurstwaren
  • Wurstwarencold cooked meat
Polish wędlina
  • wędlinacold cooked meat
Portuguese fiambre
  • fiambrecold cooked meat
Russian нарезка
  • нарезка (narezka)cold cooked meat
Spanish embutido, fiambre
  • embutidocold cooked meat
  • fiambrecold cooked meat
Cite this entry
APA

cold meat. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cold%20meat

MLA

“cold meat.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cold%20meat. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “cold meat,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cold%20meat.

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