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  • noun A type of small thin sausage from the United Kingdom.

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  • noun a small thin sausage

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Examples

  • Felicia, and one of my earliest memories is of eating delicious prawns the size of chipolata sausages out of a jar stuffed full of them.

    Jill McGown, in her own words 2010

  • But I can't even hear what David Cameron is saying any more because he looks like a pig in a blanket (chipolata sausage wrapped in bacon); Cameron's ordinariness requires him to look permanently surprised, a simple working boy shocked at life's injustices.

    Jane Bussmann: When Did 'Ordinary' Become Praise? 2010

  • Not only are they are the cruelest characters in the book; his descriptions of them—“small black eyes,” large noses, and “lips, wet and shiny like two small, uncooked chipolata sausages”—disturbed even the unflappable Ann Watkins when she read the manuscript.100 She told him she found the characters crude and that he should soften his anti-Jewish and anti-religious tone.101 But that was easier said than done.

    Storyteller Donald Sturrock 2010

  • But I can't even hear what David Cameron is saying any more because he looks like a pig in a blanket (chipolata sausage wrapped in bacon); Cameron's ordinariness requires him to look permanently surprised, a simple working boy shocked at life's injustices.

    Jane Bussmann: When Did 'Ordinary' Become Praise? 2010

  • The lardy Deputy Prime Minister might have the body of a saveloy but in the department where it matters he is a chipolata, she recorded in her diaries.

    John "2 inches" Prescott leads the Labour scum to oblivion. FIDO The Dog 2009

  • The chipolata sausages sitting on the table are courtesy of Richard Caring.

    From Mayfair to Dubai Peretz, Evgenia 2008

  • Clearly he will also have been shagging his secretary with his chipolata.

    Brogan Blog: White Slaver Pickles' Love Bomb 2008

  • The chipolata sausages sitting on the table are courtesy of Richard Caring.

    From Mayfair to Dubai Peretz, Evgenia 2008

  • Next-up there will be a comparitive chipolata commentary and Mr Wreck-it will have a fit and provide the SNP with a neat little by-election.

    The Home Office Bans My Blog 2007

  • This is a thoroughly unpleasent individual who would probably laugh his tiny chipolata off if somebody whom he perceived to be "one of that lot " fell ill.

    BREAKING NEWS: Prescott Has Got Pneumonia 2007

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  • the kind of sausage that would be included in the artery-clogging "fry" you'd have for breakfast: two sausages, three rashers, black pudding, white pudding, fried tomatoes, runny fried eggs with fried potatoes

    March 21, 2007