kibble

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So we fill them up on dry "kibble," which combines animal products with vegetable-based starches, and meat-based canned "wet" foods, many containing parts of animals cats would likely never encounter, much less hunt and kill, in a purely natural situation.

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  1. noun An iron bucket used in wells or mines for hoisting water, ore, or refuse to the surface.
  2. transitive verb To crush or grind (grain, for example) coarsely.
  3. noun Meal ground by this process and used in the form of pellets especially for pet food.

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  • It's a great deal on labor: I feed them banana bread/kibble, they work for free, and they never complain.
  • Five minutes later, Tess was in her twelve-year-old Toyota, the kibble was in the trunk, and Esskay was standing stiff-legged in the backseat, sliding back and forth with every turn and whimpering at every pothole, which came roughly every fifteen feet. —  Lippman, Laura - [Tess Monaghan 02] - Charm City
  • He knew which side his kibble was buttered on What're you looking at? —  one
  • And we love the fabric in that top but we hate that kibble (or whatever it is) sewn into the neckline. —  Tom and Lorenzo/Former Project Rungay Blog
  • I think the corndogs and kibble were supposed to be "African" inspired jewelry and may have even been findings from Isaac's collection. —  Tom and Lorenzo/Former Project Rungay Blog
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  1. Probably from German Kübel, pail, from Middle High German, from Old High German -chublī (in miluhchublī, milk pail), from Vulgar Latin *cupia, from Latin cūpa, vat.
  2. Origin unknown.

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  1. Perhaps an unassibilated and variant freq. of chip, v.
  2. kibble, n.
 

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