salami

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You know: After one slice and then another, it appears to be the same as when you began - but then after a few more slices suddenly you look and the salami is almost gone.

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  1. noun Any of various highly spiced and salted sausages, made from beef or a mixture of pork and beef.

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  • From the ceiling there hung sausages, salami, and queer yellow cheeses shaped like bulging goatskin-bottles. —  Maigret and the Dosser [88] Georges Simenon
  • You know: After one slice and then another, it appears to be the same as when you began - but then after a few more slices suddenly you look and the salami is almost gone. —  Newsmax - Inside Cover
  • Similarly you can never have too much saussison or salami which is why we made less sausage and more salami this time too. —  Sallygardens Smallholding
  • Such benefits include home made sausages, salami, air dried hams and out of this world roasts. —  Sallygardens Smallholding
  • Just for added dramatic impact, the salami was Ichiro's 3,085th career hit between Japan and Seattle, tying him with Japan hit king Isao Harimoto - a living legend of Japanese baseball who just happened to be in attendance at Safeco Field. —  The Seattle Times
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  1. Italian, pl. of salame, salami, from Vulgar Latin *salāmen, from *salāre, to salt, from Latin sāl, salt; see sal- in Indo-European roots.
 

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