summer sausage

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summer sausage (countable and uncountable, plural summer sausages)

  1. Sausage cured to the extent that it requires no refrigeration.
    • 1980, Stephen King, The Mist:
      Now these bodies hanging from that overhead pipe. The cocked heads. The dangling shoes. The tongues protruding like summer sausages.

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