Meanings
nounliberty sausage (plural liberty sausages)
plural liberty sausages
- UShistoricalA frankfurter.
Nearby, a boy in a tweed reefer sold frankfurters (though they couldn’t, of course, be called that any longer). “Liberty sausages!” cried the boy from his cart.
2007 January 3, Michael Lowenthal, “Two”, in Charity Girl, 1. edition (fiction), Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, published 2007, →ISBN, page 10, lines 11–13
Origin
Coined during wartime because of antipathy toward the Germans and their language; see liberty cabbage.
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