Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Any of various highly spiced and salted sausages, made from beef or a mixture of pork and beef.
Wiktionary
- n. A highly seasoned type of large sausage of Italian origin, typically made from chopped pork or beef and often garlic, and served in slices.
- n. baseball A grand slam.
WordNet 3.0
- n. highly seasoned fatty sausage of pork and beef usually dried
Etymologies
- Italian, plural of salame ("salami"). From sale ("salt"), from Latin sal. (Wiktionary)
- Italian, pl. of salame, salami, from Vulgar Latin *salāmen, from *salāre, to salt, from Latin sāl, salt. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“That's what we call the salami-slicing technique, that one slice of salami doesn't make a difference.”
“The Russians would take a small slice at a time via dubious but not too provocative measures until the whole salami is gone.”
“In a highly critical report, the health select committee said hospitals were resorting to short-term "salami slicing" as they try to find £20 billion in efficiency savings by 2014/15.”
“However, earlier this month professional bodies condemned the revamp and on Tuesday the Health Select Committee published a highly critical report which said hospitals were resorting to short-term "salami slicing" as they try to find £20 billion in efficiency savings by 2014/15.”
“His remarks follow a highly critical report from the Commons Health Select Committee which said hospitals were resorting to short-term "salami slicing" as they try to find £20 billion in efficiency savings by 2014/15.”
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
“In this case the story could mean the word salami means”
“Then, you roll the sheet up tightly, greasing it with shortening and pulling it taut after each turn, until it’s coiled into a thick spool that we call the salami.”
“The hack at the center of the movie—called a salami attack—involves the protagonists stealing a fraction of each of the transactions their company makes and is an actual type of automated attack, says Pete Lindstrom , the research director at Spire Security.”
“After embezzling from his new employer's payroll (through a technique known as salami slicing), Gorman is brought to the attention of the CEO, Ross Webster.”
“After embezzling from his new employer's payroll (through a technique known as salami slicing), Gorman is brought to the attention of the CEO, Ross”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘salami’.
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IMCO - EU nomenclature
includes words of the "Prodcom list"
abaca, abdominal, abrasive, absorbent, absorber, accelerator, accessory, account book, accumulator, acebutolol, acetaldehyde, acetamide and 4515 more...
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Yazhinni Spelling bee
tongue, stallion, scruple, salinity, schedule, rouge, populist, Permian, perspire, pasteurize, multitude, mournful and 227 more...
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food collection
bread, peel, pot, chorizo, Filet, olive, fill, Phyllo, dough, bake, mat, pinot and 988 more...
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food and drinks
honey, breakfast, omelette, cheese, salami, hot dog, sausage, turkish salami, butter, olives, muesli, tofurkey
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Luncheon meats
Because I couldn't help myself. See luncheon.
olive loaf, baloney, salami, ham, roast beef, prosciutto, pimiento loaf, summer sausage, cotto salami, silver star’s blu..., spam, cheese loaf and 18 more...
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Foodie
As much fun to say as they are to eat.
blueberry, cider, almond, apricot, asparagus, banana, fudge, foldover, flapjacks, filbert, fig, biscuit and 217 more...
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Words I like
This is a list of my favourite words (phrases) in english, as a second language. I love them mostly because of how they sound and their meaning.
ninja, cookie, skill, zip, plentiful, digg, debris, pancake, cucumber, fetch, pot, backpack and 461 more...
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spoon
being items relating to food, cooking and the kitchen.
spoon, fork, beef, slice, dozen, eggs, simmer, broil, salad, soup, stock, lard and 287 more...
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The braggadocio recipe
A selection of English* words ending with a vowel (except "y", "ea", ie", "ee", "oo", "ea", "ou") that is REALLY pronounced.
My favorite English words, by the way.
The good twin of The ...braggadocio, recipe, encyclopedia, solo, gnu, flu, maybe, apocope, mini, arrhythmia, folio, stereo and 197 more...
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food
food, chef, spice, salt, sugar, pumpkin, apples, fruit, vegetable, savory, soup, sauce and 280 more...
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Important Concepts I Learned from Wat...
mudhen, bowel resection, tracheotomy, shrapnel, brassiere, pinko, peace talks, salami, lebanese, section 8, hot lips, frank burns eats ... and 74 more...
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Gabba Gabba Word: some Ramones words
blitzkrieg, pulsating, revved, beat, brat, punk, runt, wanna, boyfriend, chainsaw, massacre, sniff and 84 more...
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Have you met Dick?
Euphemisms for "penis". my inner 12 year old still finds them funny. suggestions welcome! i'm looking for single words only, 2 maximum. words that most people recognize and may also be used to desc...
euphemism, dick, cock, wang, stiffy, wood, chubby, turtle, schlong, willy, pecker, johnson and 21 more...
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English food terms borrowed from othe...
scone, profiterole, marmalade, spinach, artichoke, pistachio, pastry, carob, apricot, bacalao, cacao, cassava and 14 more...
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Sausages!
Come on, who doesn't like a good sausage?
country thin, bratwurst, salami, kransky, andouille, boudin blanc, chorizo, blood sausage, Spanish sausage, Polish sausage, bologna, kielbasa and 79 more...
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Rectal Foreign Bodies
I sense (perhaps wrongly) an enormous pent-up demand for this list.
glass bottle, ceramic jar, bottle with attac..., light bulb, glass, cup, apple, banana, carrot, cucumber, onion, parsnip and 43 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for salami.
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