Horsegate

name, slang

name, slang ·Uncommon ·College level

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A scandal in 2013 in which it emerged that several large British supermarket chains were selling equine meat in products claimed to be one hundred percent beef. informal

Etymology

From horse + -gate.

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