cold meat box

noun

A coffin.

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Meanings

nouncold meat box (plural cold meat boxes)

plural cold meat boxes

  1. UKobsoleteslangA coffin.

    "Perhaps you have a charm for never growing any older?" "No; but I could not lead such a life. I have already a bad cough." "Ah, I see you already in the cold-meat box."

    1899, Eugène Sue, The Works of Eugène Sue: Illustrated with Etchings, page 45
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