kielbasa

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The police had caught the drug dealers on wiretaps referring to "hot kielbasa," and Police Commissioner Ray Kelly explained, "the 'kielbasa' was really cocaine, and thanks to outstanding police work it's no longer available at the meat market."

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  • He was six-two of solid Polska kielbasa, three times wounded in the line of duty back when he was still on the real streets. —  F ;SF; - vol 092 issue 04 - April 1997
  • I buy a kielbasa-and-onion hoagie from a cart that looks reasonably sanitary, carry it to the cheapest taproom I've found here in the last two months, and scarf it down with a pint of homebrew beer. —  Steele, Allen - [Near-Space 05] - A King of Infinite Space
  • First he apologized for telling him to eat kielbasa, but backtracked to make it clear .. you're still garbage! —  Whudat • The Latest Black Celebrity News and Views sprinkled with flavors
  • Neil and I research new lures for shad and new techniques for catching them, then we make our own lures, hoping to strike gold in the form of big, fat female shad -- which I call "sallies" -- and the two egg sacks they carry (which are gold in color and each as big as a kielbasa sausage). —  Island Packet: Home
  • One thing that hasn't changed: an Old World mitteleuropean bill of fare - kielbasa, palancinky, hot cakes - that's as filling as it is tasty. —  NOW Magazine
 

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  1. Polish kiełbasa, from East and West Slavic *kŭlbasa, from East Turkic kül bassï, grilled cutlet, from Turkic kül bastï : kül, coals, ashes + bastï, pressed (meat) (from basmaq, to press).
 

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