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cold cuts

noun · 3 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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1

noun

Meaning 1

Cooked, sliced meat served cold.

A tray of finger food.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: plural, plural-normally

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2

noun

Meaning 2

Cooked, sliced meat served cold.

Ellipsis of cold cut sandwiches; see cold cut.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, plural, plural-normally

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3

noun

Meaning 3

sliced assorted cold meats

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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Broader terms: meat

Narrower terms: lunch meat, luncheon meat

History

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Across languages

Translations

17 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Catalan: carn freda — meat
  • Chinese Mandarin: 午餐肉 (wǔcānròu) — meat
  • Finnish: leikkeleet — meat
  • Galician: friame — meat
  • German: Aufschnitt — meat
  • Hebrew: נַקְנִיק (naqníq) — meat
  • Irish: feoil lóin — meat
  • Italian: affettato — meat
  • Polish: wędlina — meat
  • Portuguese: fiambre — meat
  • Portuguese: frios — meat
  • Russian: наре́зка (narézka) — meat
  • Spanish: fiambre — meat
  • Spanish: companaje — meat
  • Spanish: cecina — meat
  • Spanish: embutido — meat
  • Swedish: kallskuret — meat