rollmops

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A form of rollmop — A fillet of herring, rolled and flavoured with sliced onion and spices then pickled in brine.

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Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of rollmop
nounrollmops (plural rollmops)
  1. alternativeAlternative form of rollmop.

    Father poured a shot of vodka for each of his guests and for himself, and each of them pierced a rollmops with a fork.

    2001, Frank Stiffel, The Oxymoron Factor: Franek: Stranger in My Land, page 46
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    This guide was much addicted to indulgence of a peculiar form of twisted English and at odd moments given to the consumption of a delicacy of strictly Germanic origin, known in the language of the Teutons as a rollmops. A rollmops consists of a large dilled cucumber, with a pickled herring coiled round it ready to strike, in the design of the rattlesnake-and-pinetree flag of the Revolution, the motto in both instances being in effect: "Don't monkey with the buzz saw!"

    1914, Irvin S. Cobb, “The Combustible Captain of Vienna”, in Europe Revised
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