Biltong

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A South African food categorized by strips of lean meat cured by salting and drying, similar to American jerky. South-Africa, Zimbabwe, countable, uncountable

    "The rest of the buck's flesh we cut into strips and hung in the sun to dry into 'biltong,' as, I believe, the South African Dutch call flesh thus prepared."

  2. 2
    meat that is salted and cut into strips and dried in the sun wordnet

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"The rest of the buck's flesh we cut into strips and hung in the sun to dry into 'biltong,' as, I believe, the South African Dutch call flesh thus prepared."

Etymology

Borrowed from Afrikaans biltong, from bil (“buttock, hindquarter”) + tong (“tongue, strip”).

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