Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Salt beef.

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  • noun US, obsolete beef

Etymologies

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From the fact that horse meat was considered especially unappetizing and rarely eaten, but that the meat had been so heavily salted and dried that it could just be horse meat passing off as cow meat.

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