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tinned dog
noun tinned dog
(slang) An unappetizing tinned meat (never literally dog).
1901: The storekeeper packed the case of tinned dog,..
--Henry Lawson, The Ghosts Of Many Christmases
story, reprinted in Children of the Bush http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/7065
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