corned beef

• corn beef, corn-beef, cornbeef
• corned-beef

From corn (“to preserve (meat) in coarse corns of salt”, verb); (chief officer): rhyming slang for chief.

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corned beef (countable and uncountable, plural corned beefs)

1. Smoke-cured and salted beef.
2. Beef conserved in tins (cans).
   • 2015 July 2, Michael Pearson, “6 things to know about hot dog king Joey Chestnut”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     Here’s a grocery list of foods Chestnut has eaten competitively, drawn from his Major League Eating bio: apple pie, asparagus, boysenberry pie, brats, burritos, chicken spiedies (a kind of sandwich), chicken wings, chili, corned beef sandwiches, eggs, fish tacos, funnel cake, grilled cheese sandwiches, gyoza, Krystal hamburgers, horseshoe sandwiches, hot dogs, ice cream, jalapeno poppers, kolaches, pastrami sandwiches, Philly cheesesteaks, pierogi, pizza, pork ribs, pulled pork, poutine, salt potatoes, shrimp, tacos, tamales, turkey and Twinkies.

3. (UK, prison slang, historical) The chief officer of a prison.
   • 1999, Alex Alexandrowicz, David Wilson, The Longest Injustice: The Strange Story of Alex Alexandrowicz:

     Steve and I raced for the building and began climbing the wall, before any of the screws knew what was happening. […] The Corned Beef came out first and initiated the ploy to get us down.

• bully beef
• pastrami
• smoked meat
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