A British and Canadian term for processed, cooked meat sold pre-sliced or in tins, equivalent to American 'lunch meat'. The canned variety — most famously represented by Spam — became associated with postwar austerity in Britain, giving the word a slightly downmarket connotation. Today it can refer to any variety of packaged cold meat used in sandwiches.
She made him a luncheon meat sandwich and packed it in his bag without asking what he wanted.
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(UK, Canada) Lunch meat.
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(dialectal) (canned meat).
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Regional slang from around the English-speaking world — British, Australian, Irish, Caribbean, Nigerian, Filipino, AAVE, and the hyphenated-English dialects that make the internet sound local.
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