iron rations

Domain: Universal Words

Part of speech: noun

[pl.] (often humorous) a small amount of food that soldiers and people walking or climbing carry to use in an emergency

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This is a English–English dictionary entry.

Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.

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iron rations