Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A kind of high-dried sausage made of partly cooked pork.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A kind of sausage made of meat partly cooked.
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- adjective obsolete
Poland . - noun Alternative form of
palone . - noun A kind of
sausage made ofmeat that has been only partlycooked . - noun Scotland the
polonaise .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun another name for Bologna sausage
Etymologies
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Examples
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In 1994, he helped a Boston biotech complete the first bacterial genome sequence.36 Later, his team developed one of the first next-generation sequencing methods, called polony sequencing.37 Elements of this technology were incorporated into the technologies developed by ABI and Complete Genomics, while the Church lab helped build a low-cost open-source sequencing instrument called the Polonator.
The $1,000 Genome Kevin Davies 2010
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The children themselves, who came along for a snack of polony a bright pink, toxic-looking lunch meat that they all seemed to love and cheese, had the unnatural quietness of kids who had spent too much of their lives sick and in pain.
No Place Left to Bury the Dead Nicole Itano 2007
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Armed with a cooler full of bread, Coke, cheese, and polony, we found a free spot and spread out our towels and blankets in the soft sand.
No Place Left to Bury the Dead Nicole Itano 2007
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With a taste of roly polony from Blugpuddels after.
Finnegans Wake 2006
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The abattoir is expected to produce salami, polony, ribs and tinned baboon meat for markets in central Africa and eastern
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Altogether 46 cases of theft in the parliamentary complex - including a polony slicer and dictionary - were reported between
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I ain't 'ad a bite since yesterday -- an' 't wa'n't nothin 'but a slice o' polony sossidge I found on a dust-'eap.
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I ain't 'ad a bite since yesterday -- an' 't wa'n't nothin 'but a slice o' polony sossidge I found on a dust-'eap.
The Dawn of a To-morrow Frances Hodgson Burnett 1886
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Here, whilst I left the little girl innocently eating a polony in the front shop, I and Boroughbridge retired with the boy into the back parlour, where Mrs. Boroughbridge was playing cribbage.
English Satires Various 1885
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As a rule, he stowed everything away under his shirt; and at night when he reached his bedroom he drew from his bosom hunks of polony, slices of _pate de foie gras_, and bundles of pork rind.
The Fat and the Thin ��mile Zola 1871
MaryW commented on the word polony
Misha Angrist, Here is a Human Being: At the Dawn of Personal Genomics (New York: HarperCollins, 2010), ch. 2 (Kindle loc. 334)December 17, 2016