A British and Canadian term for processed, cooked meat sold pre-sliced or in tins, equivalent to American 'lunch meat'.
A British and Canadian term for processed, cooked meat sold pre-sliced or in tins, equivalent to American 'lunch meat'. The canned variety — most famously represented by Spam — became associated with postwar austerity in Britain, giving the word a slightly downmarket connotation. Today it can refer to any variety of packaged cold meat used in sandwiches.
She made him a luncheon meat sandwich and packed it in his bag without asking what he wanted.
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UK and Irish slang — Cockney, Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Glaswegian, Brummie, Welsh, West Country, plus Irish English. Centuries of regional dialects feeding into modern British and Irish street talk.
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(UK, Canada) Lunch meat.
“When you have luncheon meat you're having "meat in/for lunch".”
(dialectal) (canned meat).