liberty sausage
(US, historical) A frankfurter.
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#1·Apr 27, 2026
(US, historical) A frankfurter.
Nearby, a boy in a tweed reefer sold frankfurters (though they couldn’t, of course, be called that any longer). “Liberty sausages!” cried the boy from his cart.
Origin: Coined during wartime because of antipathy toward the Germans and their language; see liberty cabbage. Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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