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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Alternative form of
palone . - noun Scotland the
polonaise . - adjective obsolete
Poland . - noun A kind of
sausage made ofmeat that has been only partlycooked .
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.
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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.
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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.
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With a taste of roly polony from Blugpuddels after.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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