monkey meat

English

Noun

monkey meat (uncountable)

  1. (US, military slang) Tinned meat.
    • 1929, Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, Folio Society 2008, p. 184:
      ‘You'd better get some sleep,’ I said. ‘We can eat cheese and monkey-meat.’
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