summer sausage

noun

Sausage cured to the extent that it requires no refrigeration.

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Meanings

nounsummer sausage (countable and uncountable, plural summer sausages)

plural summer sausages

  1. countableuncountableSausage cured to the extent that it requires no refrigeration.

    Now these bodies hanging from that overhead pipe. The cocked heads. The dangling shoes. The tongues protruding like summer sausages.

    1980, Stephen King, The Mist, Viking Press
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APA

summer sausage. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/summer%20sausage

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“summer sausage.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/summer%20sausage. Accessed November 5, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “summer sausage,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/summer%20sausage.

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